Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET
684-1/7/161 (West side)
19/01/51 No.92

GV II

House and shop. 1710, or possibly a little earlier; later
addition at rear. Rendered, solid walls, probably of brick.
Slated roof with red ridge-tiles, parallel to street. Red
brick chimney on right gable. Plan: double-depth, one room
wide.
4 storeys, altered to 3. Asymmetrical but regular 2-window
range. C20 shop front to ground floor. Windows with moulded
architraves, first-floor windows truncated at bottom by raised
ceiling, but retaining some stained glass; 2nd-floor windows
8-pane sashes; 3rd-floor windows 4 over 8-pane sashes.
Exceptional coved eaves cornice, decorated with presumably
plaster trophies (includes gloves, drums and standards) in
deep relief.
INTERIOR: altered with original stair removed. Ground floor
gutted for shop use. Upper floor retains parts of seed husk
plaster ceiling in an C18 style.

Listing NGR: SS5580433165

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664973

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback