Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5532 TAW VALE PARADE
684-1/4/230 Nos.1 AND 2
19/01/51

GV II

Pair of houses. c1810-1830. Smooth-plastered mass wall
construction; natural slate roof, hipped at ends with crested
ridge-tiles; stacks with rendered brick shaft with platband
and 8 old pots with toothed cresting. Italianate style.
Pair of mirror plan double-depth houses, the main range, at
the front, one room wide, heated from shared axial stack.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front with deep boxed eaves, the
front elevation with a dentil cornice; platband at first-floor
level; windows have external sliding sun shutters. Outer
round-headed doorways with recessed inner arch, both with
small-pane C20 glazed front doors and fanlights. Centre bay of
the range has a round-headed niche and cill blocks and blind
first-floor window with a moulded architrave and cill blocks.
Ground-floor windows glazed with tripartite horned sashes,
2-pane in the centre, No.1 retains outer 4-pane lights. 4
first-floor 12-pane hornless sashes. Right return of No.2 has
a round-headed stair window facing Litchdon Lane.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Part of a group of fine C19 town houses on Taw Vale Parade.

Listing NGR: SS5596332857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665138

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)