Listing Text

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE JOY STREET
684-1/7/182 (South side)
31/08/88 No.11

GV II

Shop. 1896. By A Lauder. For Barnstaple Co-operative Society.
Front of limestone ashlar with bands of brown stone; remainder
red brick. Roof not visible from street. Red brick chimney on
left gable. Late medieval French Gothic style.
2 lofty storeys, equal to 3 storeys of the neighbouring
buildings. 4-bay front. C20 shop front in ground storey,
except for original doorway at left-hand end. Doorway has
moulded segmental arch with section of entablature above. To
left a triangular pilaster with carved capital. Upper storey
has a range of round-arched windows with heavily moulded
archivolts springing from triangular pilasters with attached
shaft at either side. At the foot of the right-hand pilaster
and of each of the 2 left-hand pilasters is a griffin holding
a shield. Above each window is a gabled hood containing a
cartouche flanked by cherubs, the feet of the hoods decorated
with winged beasts. Behind the hoods is a tall panelled
parapet surmounted by more griffins holding shields.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5586433324