3 Prospect Place

Description

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

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 PROSPECT PLACE, Newport 684-1/5/291 (North West side) 31/12/73 No.3

GV II

House, divided into flats. 1824 (information from the owner).

Smooth-plastered mass wall construction; natural slate roof; stacks with brick shafts and old pots. Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with principal rooms at first-floor level. First floor now entered from the rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front. Deep boxed eaves with eaves band and moulded brackets. Left and right pilasters with incised moulding. Round-headed doorwway in centre with recessed arch. Internal porch with 6-panel door with fielded panels, fanlight with spoke glazing bars. Ground-floor windows 16-pane hornless sashes; 3 first-floor 8 over 12-pane sashes with pretty individual cast-iron balconies with spider's web motifs. 2 gabled dormers glazed with 6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: ground floor retains probably late C19 decorated plaster cornices in stair hall; stair removed. C19 joinery survives. First floor is more complete with original panelled doors with planted mouldings; fluted doorcases with carved corner blocks; pretty early C19 plaster cornices; Edwardian chimneypieces and staircase. One of a small attractive terrace of varied designs.





Listing NGR: SS5655432184

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

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© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project