Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/7/65 (West side)
31/12/73 No.113
(Formerly Listed as:
BOUTPORT STREET
(West side)
Nos.110 TO 113 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, partly used as showrooms and offices owned by the
Barnstaple Bridge Trust. c1820s. Plastered; slate roof, gabled
at ends; end stacks with rendered shafts; rear left internal
lateral stack with rendered shaft. Main range double-depth
plan, 2 rooms wide with the stair rising at right angles off a
central passage entrance. Single-storey rear outshuts to rear
right; rear left 2-storey service wing.
3 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay front with entrance to left of
centre. Good Tuscan doorcase with shallow open pediment and
outer doorway of 6 fielded panels below a fanlight with radial
glazing bars. All windows and blind recesses have proud,
stuccoed voussoirs. Windows 12-pane hornless sashes, blind
recesses in bay above door.
Rear elevation preserves round-headed stair window with radial
glazing bars in upper light and one 2nd-floor 12-pane sash.
Rear wing under 2 gable-ended roofs has variety of windows,
mostly C20, and ends with a lean-to.
INTERIOR: somewhat altered but retains good plaster friezes
including a Greek key ceiling frieze. Stair has been partly
boxed in but may be intact and chimneypieces may survive.

Listing NGR: SS5587533394

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