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Latitude: 51.0788 / 51°4'43"N
Longitude: -4.0583 / 4°3'30"W
OS Eastings: 255910
OS Northings: 133069
OS Grid: SS559330
Mapcode National: GBR KQ.DCQN
Mapcode Global: FRA 26D8.DRS
Plus Code: 9C3Q3WHR+GM
Entry Name: Royal and Fortescue Hotel
Listing Date: 19 January 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385040
English Heritage Legacy ID: 485501
Also known as: Royal & Fortesque Hotel
ID on this website: 101385040
Location: Barnstaple, North Devon, EX31
County: Devon
District: North Devon
Civil Parish: Barnstaple
Built-Up Area: Barnstaple
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Barnstaple St Peter and St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/7/44 (East side)
19/01/51 No.61
Royal and Fortescue Hotel
GV II
House, converted to hotel. Early C18 with later alterations.
Plastered mass wall, hipped slate roof; stacks with yellow and
red brick shafts, some with old yellow and red terracotta
pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. Main block double-depth, 2
rooms wide, raised from 3 storeys to 4; 2-phase C19 rear wing.
4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the outer bays with
shallow projecting 3-storey bows. Moulded projecting cornices
at eaves and at 4th-floor ground level. Late C19 ground floor
with chamfered rusticated pilasters to left and right and
flanking doorway with moulded projecting cornice with guttae
and cast-iron anthemion cresting. Low parapet above doorway
carved with Prince of Wales feathers. Tripartite 12-pane
sashes, probably early C19, similar sashes to first floor with
eared architraves. Second-floor windows paired 6-pane horned
sashes with eared architraves 12-pane hornless sashes to third
floor with eared architraves. A fine late C19 lamp holder with
coloured glass, iron cresting and Prince of Wales' feathers is
attached to the ground floor. The left return of the building
is mostly glazed with double-hung small-pane C19 sashes. The
service wing has 5 tall round-headed recesses on the ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SS5591033069
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