Barum House / House On Corner Of Diamond Street (Formerly Occupied By Dentist)

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE THE SQUARE 684-1/7/237 (North side) 31/12/73 Barum House (Formerly Listed as: THE SQUARE (North side) House on corner of Diamond Street (formerly occupied by dentist))

GV II

House. Early C18, with late C19 additions. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. Rendered chimney on each gable end; red brick ones just behind centre of ridge and on rear gable of wing. Probably double-fronted and 2 rooms deep, with late C19 rear wing to right. 2 storeys. 6-window range with flanking giant pilasters, each with a section of triglyphed frieze on top, the boxed eaves cornice breaking forward above it. Ground storey altered in late C19. Centre doorway with deep glazed porch supported at the front by cast-iron columns with enriched capitals. At either side a flat-topped canted bay window. Upper-storey windows have plain sashes in box-frames. Side elevation to Diamond Street has sashes with margin-panes. INTERIOR not inspected. (Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: Bristol: 1980-: PL 66, 101).



Listing NGR: SS5592633021

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project