26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384992
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384992
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
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:
- 26 AND 27, BEAR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 56139 33336
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5633 BEAR STREET
684-1/3/14 (North side)
31/08/88 Nos.26 AND 27
GV II
Shop, house and business premises, originally built as seed
and wool stores for W & J Hutchings. Late C19. Cream-coloured
brick with stone dressings. Slated roofs with crested red
ridge-tiles and a finial. Chimney of matching brick on each
side wall on front range, both with decorated pots.
Plan consists of house at the front with cart entrance in
centre of ground storey, leading to long narrow courtyard at
the back with warehouses and offices on all 3 sides. Shop has
been inserted on right-hand side of frontage.
2 storeys with garret. 3-bay front with brick pilasters
flanking and separating the bays. Left-hand bay, with dormer
gable at the top, has 2-light window with curved stone lintel
in each of ground and 2nd storeys, the lights separated by a
stone column with carved capital. Narrower middle bay has cart
entrance with segmental brick arch and keystone carved with a
ram's head; double plank doors with open panels of
wrought-iron scrollwork at the top. Window with segmental
brick arch and keystone in upper storey. Right-hand bay has
doorway with segmental brick arch and keystone to left; C20
shop window to right. In upper storey 3 windows with segmental
brick arches and keystones. Above the middle and right-hand
bays a stone cornice and brick parapet, the former supported
by brackets reminiscent of machicolations.
The courtyard buildings are similar in character and
apparently in their original state. At the far end of the
left-hand side is a building with large, sliding wooden doors
in ground storey and an upper storey fronted with wooden
louvres. The building is a remarkably complete example of
combined dwelling and commercial premises in late C19.
(Harper's Albums: 17).
Listing NGR: SS5613933336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harper's Albums in Harper's Albums, (), 17
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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