21, BOUTPORT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385025
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: 21, BOUTPORT STREET
Statutory Address:: 21, BOUTPORT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385025
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: 21, BOUTPORT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21, BOUTPORT STREET

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 21, BOUTPORT 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 55904 33406

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE BOUTPORT STREET 684-1/7/30 (East side) 31/12/73 No.21 (Formerly Listed as: BOUTPORT STREET (East side) Nos.21 & 22)

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House, now offices. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roofs, the main building with 2 hipped spans at right-angles to street. 2 old red brick chimneys on left side wall. 2 rooms wide, 2 rooms deep, with main and service stairs in centre; lower rear service wing to right. Ground-floor plan is unusual, with what looks like offices, perhaps for a doctor, at the front. Off-centre entrance passage with large room to right, 2 narrow rooms to left, the front one with doorways to passage, rear room and side street. Passage from main stair hall to back door; plain rear room to right perhaps the former kitchen. 2 storeys with garret. 4-window range. Round-arched doorway in place of second ground-storey window from left; 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush; matching reveals, fanlight with radial bars, an anthemion at its base; panelled flanking pilasters supporting triangular pediment; 3 worn stone steps with enriched shoescraper at each side. Windows have 6-paned sashes, except that the lower ground-storey sashes now have no glazing bars. Whole front flanked by giant pilasters supporting top cornice and parapet. Left side wall (facing Vicarage Street) has plain doorway (now a window) to right of front section and an original window to left; 2 windows above them in upper storey; all windows have 6-paned sashes, except that the lower ground storey sash now has no glazing bars. Tall, round-arched stair window in centre; small-paned sashes with radial bars in the head. No window in rear section. Rear wall has 6-panelled back door, the 2 bottom panels flush; 6-paned fanlight with margin-panes. To right, a canted bay window with 3-light French window, each light with 3 panes and margin-panes; matching 1-pane transom lights. Ground-storey window to left has 8-paned sashes. 2 upper-storey windows with 6-paned sashes, flanking a smaller one with 4-paned sashes. Rear wing has 3 ground-storey windows, all having sashes with 6 over 9 panes and horns; late C20 half-glazed door to right; upper storey has 2 windows with box-framed, 6-paned sashes flanking a blind centre window. INTERIOR: very well preserved, except that only 2 chimneypieces have survived. Entrance passage has 3 small groin-vaulted ceilings; also 2 round arches with panelled soffits springing from panelled pilasters. Large stairhall with enriched modillioned cornices on both floors. Wooden geometrical stair with thin square balusters and shaped tread-ends, the balustrade voluted at the bottom. The back stair, which rises to the garret, is a wooden open-well with moulded nosings to the treads, thin square balusters and handrail ramped up over column-newels. Except for the supposed former kitchen, principal rooms have 6-panelled doors, moulded skirtings, panelled shutters and moulded or enriched cornices. Right-hand front ground-floor room has painted stone chimneypiece with paired flanking pilasters; enriched cornice and ceiling-band. To left the small front room has only a moulded cornice while the room of similar size behind it has a heavily enriched cornice, together with a window set high up, so that it cannot easily be looked through. Rear left ground-storey room has enriched cornice and ceiling band moulded with vines. Upper-floor landing has at each end a lobby to the front and back rooms, entered through round arches springing from pilasters; soffits of arches and sides of pilasters decorated with key pattern; lobbies have modillioned cornices. At the front, 2 rooms now combined, that to right L-shaped, that to left shallower with a small room behind it. Rear left-hand room has enriched cornice. Right-hand garret has fireplace with moulded architrave and basket grate. Roof timbers original with through-purlins. Service wing not inspected. (Lamplugh L: Barnstaple: 1983-: 118-19; White W: Directory of Devon: 1850-: 580).

Listing NGR: SS5590433406

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 485486
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lamplugh, L , Barnstaple, (1983), 118-119
White, W , Directory of Devon, (1850), 580

Legal

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