Listing Text

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE GREEN LANE
684-1/7/118 (East side (off))
31/12/73 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
GREEN LANE
No.3
HQ of Red Cross)

GV II

Original function unknown, possibly a warehouse, although
without loading doors in upper storeys. Probably 1837. Solid
roughcast front; stone rubble right side wall; slate roof.
Small red brick chimney on centre of front wall.
3 storeys. 3-window range. Ground storey has 6-panelled door
at right-hand end with fixed 3-panel section adjoining it. To
left, wide segmental-headed doorway, now filled with a
small-paned C20 wooden window. Between the 2 doorways a window
with fixed 12-pane sash. At far left-hand end a small, opening
wood casement. Second storey has 3 pointed-arched windows with
metal glazing bars; 30 panes, below, interlacing Gothic
tracery above; middle window altered to insert an opening
light. The two 3rd-storey windows also have metal glazing
bars, forming small diamond-shaped panes.
In right side wall is a stone plaque inscribed THIS WALL WAS
REBUILT BY T. KING 1837. Below it another: AND AGAIN IN 1990
BY H. BURGESS & SONS LTD.

Listing NGR: SS5582433369