Royal and Fortescue Hotel
ROYAL AND FORTESCUE HOTEL, 61, BOUTPORT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385040
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Royal and Fortescue Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL AND FORTESCUE HOTEL, 61, BOUTPORT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385040
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Royal and Fortescue Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL AND FORTESCUE HOTEL, 61, BOUTPORT 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:
- ROYAL AND FORTESCUE HOTEL, 61, 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 55910 33069
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/7/44 (East side)
19/01/51 No.61
Royal and Fortescue Hotel
GV II
House, converted to hotel. Early C18 with later alterations.
Plastered mass wall, hipped slate roof; stacks with yellow and
red brick shafts, some with old yellow and red terracotta
pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. Main block double-depth, 2
rooms wide, raised from 3 storeys to 4; 2-phase C19 rear wing.
4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the outer bays with
shallow projecting 3-storey bows. Moulded projecting cornices
at eaves and at 4th-floor ground level. Late C19 ground floor
with chamfered rusticated pilasters to left and right and
flanking doorway with moulded projecting cornice with guttae
and cast-iron anthemion cresting. Low parapet above doorway
carved with Prince of Wales feathers. Tripartite 12-pane
sashes, probably early C19, similar sashes to first floor with
eared architraves. Second-floor windows paired 6-pane horned
sashes with eared architraves 12-pane hornless sashes to third
floor with eared architraves. A fine late C19 lamp holder with
coloured glass, iron cresting and Prince of Wales' feathers is
attached to the ground floor. The left return of the building
is mostly glazed with double-hung small-pane C19 sashes. The
service wing has 5 tall round-headed recesses on the ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SS5591033069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485501
- 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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