Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 LITCHDON STREET
684-1/5/193 (North East side)
31/08/88 No.19

II

Formerly known as: Litchdon Terrace LITCHDON STREET.
House. Solid, rendered walls, probably of stone or brick.
Slated roof with red ridge-tiles. Red brick chimney, with
projecting brickcourse and moulded cap forming an entablature,
on each gable-wall; left-hand chimney rebuilt in replica. Low
gable parapets. Double-fronted. 2 rooms deep; central entrance
passage leading to staircase at rear.
2 storeys. 3-window range. Windows have moulded architraves;
sashes with 2 upright glazing bars forming margin panes.
Round-arched doorway in centre, recessed within another
round-arched opening with moulded architrave; 6-panel door,
with patterned fanlight above, set well back; lobby in front
has ceiling with plaster groined vault. Front flanked by
pilasters, shared with adjoining houses. Moulded eaves
cornice.
INTERIOR: in 1985, only entrance passage and staircase
inspected. Doorway with moulded and enriched architrave to
left of passage. Geometrical wooden stair with thin,
square-section balusters and shaped step-ends. Moulded cornice
at top of stair compartment.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was leased out by the Corporation
in 1821 to Philip Hodge of Barnstaple, builder, who had
'lately erected' it. Nos 17-20 were then known as Litchdon
Terrace.
Part of a formerly uniform terrace including Nos 17, 18 & 20
(qqv).
(Barnstaple Castle Documents, Surveys: 89).

Listing NGR: SS5609732814

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665005

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)