Description

TIVERTON

SS9512 BAMPTON STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/123 (West side)
14/12/72 No.62

GV II

Includes: No.23 NEWPORT STREET Tiverton.
House on a corner site with the Bampton Street side occupied
by a dentists surgery and the Newport Street premises being
occupied by a solicitors. Dating to the 1830s, it is built of
red brick in Flemish bond style with a natural slate roof and
cast-iron rainwater goods.
PLAN: the front elevations to both streets re designed to be
identical but the internal plans do not reflect this. Bampton
Street is one room wide and double-depth while Newport Street
is 2 rooms wide, one room deep with a central stair to the
elevation that is parallel to the Bampton Street elevation
which provides an entrance to the flat above the dentists.
EXTERIOR: both the Bampton Street and Newport Street
elevations are similar. They are each 2 storeys high and have
3-bay fronts plus basement and attic. Each has a central
doorway with round-headed arch and Gibbs surround. Incised
reveals. The front doors have 2 vertical panels and an
overlight at Newport Street and fanlight at Bampton Street.
There are five 12-pane hornless sash windows on either
elevation.
To Newport Street there is a 2-light casement dormer window.
Flat arches over the windows. part of the roof at the Bampton
Street elevation has asbestos slates and the basement pavement
lights are sealed over.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Bampton Street has lost its
original staircase. Newport Street has its original stick
balusters and turned newel posts in a dogleg stair. Some
original 4 panel doors remain.

Listing NGR: SS9557812784

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664568

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version