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Latitude: 51.0802 / 51°4'48"N
Longitude: -4.06 / 4°3'35"W
OS Eastings: 255799
OS Northings: 133229
OS Grid: SS557332
Mapcode National: GBR KQ.DC8Z
Mapcode Global: FRA 26D8.D3F
Plus Code: 9C3Q3WJR+32
Entry Name: 26 and 27, High Street
Listing Date: 19 January 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385148
English Heritage Legacy ID: 485610
Location: Barnstaple, North Devon, 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
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BARNSTAPLE
SS855332 HIGH STREET
684-1/8/133 (East side)
19/01/51 Nos.26 AND 27
GV II
House with later shop on the ground floor. c1860s, rear block,
to which Nos 1 & 2 Butchers' Row (qv) are attached, may be
earlier, contemporary with Butchers' Row (qv). Stuccoed; slate
roofs (rear block with flat roof); rear stack has brick shaft
and yellow chimney pot with scalloped cresting.
On an important corner site between the High Street and
Butchers' Row, with a canted corner. T-plan block with rear
centre wing and block behind Butchers' Row in angle between
rear wing and main block.
3 storeys. 1:3-window range to High Street; 2:4-window range
to Butchers' Row. Deep projecting eaves cornice on moulded
brackets; eaves band; platband at second-floor cill level;
windows with moulded architraves; second-floor windows with
moulded cill blocks. Shop front has a dentil cornice and
plate-glass windows with panelled pilasters; C20 shopfront to
right.
First-floor windows glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes with
margin panes, except left-hand bay, which is a tripartite sash
with a more elaborate architrave and a floating cornice on
consoles with a semicircular pediment over the centre.
First-floor windows are one over one-pane sashes with margin
panes, except to left bay, which is tripartite. Canted corner
and 4 bays of Butchers' Row elevation have similar details and
windows. To the left, slightly set back, a block with a 2-bay
front to Butchers' Row has a second-floor platband and similar
windows, the first-floor windows with keyblocks. INTERIOR not
inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5580233230
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