16 High Street

16, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236275
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: 16 High Street
Statutory Address:: 16, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236275
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: 16 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 16, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 16, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Totnes
National Grid Reference:: SX 80212 60429

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 July 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SX 8060 SW 1/51

HIGH STREET (South Side) No 16

(Formerly listed as No 16 (Barclay's Bank))

7.1.52.

GV II*

Circa 1585 in Dutch Renaissance manner; the front was raised and re-fenestrated in the later C18, and the ground floor loggia infilled. The building was originally of "deux corps de batiments" type; the separate kitchen block and gallery were demolished in 1968. The building became the Naval Bank in 1902. Three storeys. Three windows. Hipped Welsh slate roof. Plastered timber-framed front. Modillion eaves cornice. Decorated plaster friezes with lozenge motifs and date "1585" and initials "N.B" (first floor). Rusticated pilasters on quoins to first and second floors. (former frieze of second floor removed when building was heightened).

Later C18, linked, architraved sash windows to first and second floors with glazing bars. Former ground floor loggia with three bay Tuscan colonnade with semi-elliptical arches and enriched spandrels.

Mid C19 segmental arched sash window infill to colonnade. House doorway with re-hung original doors of 1585 with pilasters carrying semi-elliptical blind arch (repeating motif of colonnade); rusticated panel infill with wrought iron pegs.

Interior remodelled but retains fine first floor plaster ceiling decorated with rib work enriched with floral motifs. Ceiling beam and frieze decorated with rose motifs and roundels inscribed "M.E." (M. Laithwaite)

Listing NGR: SX8021260429

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Legacy System number:: 427231
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.