Rising Sun Public House
RISING SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, BOUTPORT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385071
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Rising Sun Public House
- Statutory Address:
- RISING SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, BOUTPORT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385071
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rising Sun Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RISING SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, 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:
- RISING SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, 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 55915 33197
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558332 BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/8/76 (West side)
31/12/73 Rising Sun Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
BOUTPORT STREET
(West side)
Nos.85, 86 AND 87)
GV II
Public house. Early C19, probably a rebuilding of an earlier
core. Smooth rendered mass wall construction; slate roof,
gabled at ends; stacks with brick shafts including a handmade
brick shaft projecting through roof in front of the ridge.
2 rooms wide, rear right wing with separate entrance on right
return.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window range with dentil eaves
cornice. Continuous fascia with moulded cornice and frieze.
C20 central doorway flanked by ground-floor windows which have
been reglazed and probably enlarged this century. First floor
has paired 8-pane sashes to left and right and a 12-pane sash
in the centre. 3 second floor 3 over 6-pane sashes. Right
return has 2 doorways, one into the rear wing has a moulded
cornice and frieze. Scattered fenestration, mostly sashes, one
first-floor plank loading door.
INTERIOR: ground floor gutted for present use, features of
interest may survive elsewhere.
Listing NGR: SS5591733185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485532
- 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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