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THE BOATHOUSE

THE BOATHOUSE, BRUNSWICK WHARF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385075
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: THE BOATHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE BOATHOUSE, BRUNSWICK WHARF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385075
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: THE BOATHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BOATHOUSE, BRUNSWICK WHARF

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:: THE BOATHOUSE, BRUNSWICK WHARF

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 55636 33506

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533 BRUNSWICK WHARF 684-1/6/77 (South side) 31/08/88 The Boathouse

II

Warehouse, now disused. Early C19. Slatestone rubble with dressings of squared stone, much of it limestone, yellow and red brick. Slated roof with blue glazed ridge-tiles. Oblong plan with one room on each floor. 2 storeys. 4-window ranges to north and south; 1-window gable wall to west. Upper storey of east gable wall has tall, round-headed doorway with well-cut stone jambs; yellow brick arch with keystone, springing from plain imposts. Double doors (probably original) consisting of diagonally-set planks with beaded edges. Lower doors, rising to impost level, are hinged at the sides, but a 2nd pair in the head of the arch are hinged from a central post. A later wicket door has been cut into the right-hand lower door. Fixed to right-hand jamb is part of an old iron hoist. On left side the doorway is approached by a flight of steps. Lowest 4 steps are of solid brick, but the next 4 are cantilevered stone blocks. These have been underpinned in concrete block and a platform and double doors to ground storey added in C20. Behind is the original ground-storey entrance with well-cut stone jambs, rebated for doors of which the iron hinges survive. South front has in ground storey 5 low, blocked openings with curved almost pointed arches of red brick. A 6th opening at west end has been cut into by a C20 door. Upper storey has 4 windows below the eaves, 3 of them blocked. The 2nd from the east is boarded, having behind it a rough window-frame fronting an old iron grille. Between and flanking the windows are 15 slate-framed pigeon-holes, 2 of them having the original slate perches. At the right-hand end is a doorway, now blocked, with a segmental red brick arch. The north front, which stands immediately on the edge of the quay, has windows with segmental red brick arches, 2 in the centre of the ground storey and 4 above; the 2nd upper-storey window from the east has a wooden louvre with an old iron grille behind it. Flanking the ground-storey windows are 2 wide doorways with segmental red brick arches; the eastern doorway is blocked, while the western one has an old plank door. Both doorways originally extended down to a lower quay surface. Quay wall below is supported by 3 large, raking stone buttresses. West gable-wall has a window with segmental red brick arch in upper storey and another in the gable; upper-storey window has an old iron grille. Against the north side of the ground storey is the shadow of a later stone building now demolished; it is shown in old photographs and in a mid C19 painting. INTERIOR: 1988 list description mentions plain, heavy upper-floor beams. 4 roof trusses with tie-beams, collar-beams and vertical struts from tie to principal. All timbers appeared to be nailed rather than pegged; the struts were bolted from below. A building is shown in this position, complete with extension to west, on John Wood's plan of 1843. Brunswick Wharf was built by the Gould family on a town lease about 1829 and held by them throughout C19. (Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-97: Barnstaple: 1897-: 22, 37, 87-8; Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: Bristol: 1980-: 30).

Listing NGR: SS5563633506

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 485536
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980), 30
Gardiner, W F , Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 22, 37, 87

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