Barrington House
42, GOLD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384837
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Barrington House
- Statutory Address:
- 42, GOLD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384837
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Barrington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, GOLD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BARRINGTON HOUSE, STOKES LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 42, GOLD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BARRINGTON HOUSE, STOKES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95748 12605
Details
List description amended on 21st October 2005.
SS9512
848-1/6/198
14/12/72
TIVERTON
GOLD STREET (North side)
No.42
GII
Includes: Barrington House STOKES LANE.Shop with accommodation over.C1850.Painted Flemish bond brick;turnerised slate roof,hipped to Gold Street and curved to corner with Barrington Street;right end stack with brick shaft and some old pots,axial stack to Barrington House with one square and one cylindrical pot;cast-iron rainwater goods.PLAN:corner site.Ground floor shop to Gold Street;carriageway to Stokes Lane to rear,from Barrington Street;accommodation fronting Barrington Street is Barrington House,Stokes Lane.EXTERIOR:two storeys.Rounded corner.One window front to Gold Street with platband that extended round the corner to Barrington Street and steps up above the carriageway.Good late C19 shop front,extending round corner with panelled pilasters and shaped brackets supporting a deep projecting moulded cornice.Three-light shop windows on either side of the shop door have timber or cast-iron half columns.Half-glazed shop door with deep overlight;one sixteen-pane first floor hornless sash.Barrington Street elevation has sixteen-pane first floor sashes and a segmental-headed carriageway.Barrington House has two ground and two first floor sixteen-pane sash windows to Barrington Street which have since been replaced with UPVC windows.It has a half-glazed C19 door fronting Stokes Lane.INTERIOR:Barrington House retains an elegant swan-necked staircase with turned newels and stick balusters.There is a vaulted cellar with brick supporting arches.No.42 Gold Street's plan form remains largely intact with the exception of the inserted spiral staircase.It has plain interior with simple picture rails.
Listing NGR: SS9574812605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485296
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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