Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 UNION PLACE
684-1/5/256 (East side)
31/08/88 No.2
(Formerly Listed as:
UNION PLACE
No.2
(Fortescue House))

GV II

House, now hotel incorporated with No.1 (qv). Early C19, with
later addition on right-hand side. Rendered, solid walls,
probably of stone or brick. Slated roof with red-ridge tiles.
Probably a double-depth plan with stair in centre of rear
section; unusual in having entrance through left-hand gable
wall.
2 storeys. 3-window range to garden. Outer windows in each
storey have 8-paned sashes, except for the lower ground-storey
sashes which have 12 panes. In centre of ground storey is a
tall, round-headed niche; 6-pane sashes above. Side wall to
left (visible from New Road) has round-arched doorway. Above
it, in gable, a small casement window with pointed arch;
window is mullioned and transomed, each of the 2 lights with
its own pointed arch. To right in each storey a plain sash
window.
Right-hand side wall has gable window with pointed arch and
glazing matching that in the left-hand side wall. Rear wall
has small-paned sashes including the tall stair 12-pane window
in centre. Both rear and right-hand side walls are visible
from Holy Trinity churchyard.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This house, together with No 1 Union Place (qv), has group
value both with Nos 1-6 Union Terrace (qv), Taw Vale, to the
south-west, and Holy Trinity Church (qv) to the north-east.

Listing NGR: SS5621032729

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665171

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)