BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END

BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385099
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END
Statutory Address:: BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385099
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END
Statutory Address 1:: BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END, CASTLE 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:: BARNSTAPLE TOWN STATION INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATES AT NORTH END, CASTLE 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 55554 33211

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CASTLE STREET 684-1/7/90 (South West side) 31/08/88 Barnstaple Town Station including railings and gates at north end (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (West side) Old Town Station)

GV II

Railway station, now restaurant. c1898. For the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, which closed in 1935. Squared and coursed stone rubble with window and door surrounds, quoins, copings and chimneys of dressed limestone. Slated roof with red ridge-tiles, the gables, including those of the taller central section, having high parapets, with kneelers. Chimney on each gable of centre section; 2 on ridge of right-hand section, one on ridge of left-hand section. Long rectangular plan, one room deep. Single storey. Front to Castle Street is 12-window range, with 2 doorways, designed in a simple Tudor style. Windows are flat-headed with chamfered surrounds; window frames are wooden casements with glazing bars. Slightly projecting, chamfered plinth. Taller middle section, set forward a little, has wide central doorway with a pair of windows at either side. Doorway has half-glazed double doors and is approached by a flight of 6 wide stone steps with rounded corners. A pair of stone corbels at either side, originally probably supporting a canopy. Platform side has original wooden canopy on iron trusses; these are supported by with decorated brackets. Original iron railings and gates to approach at right-hand (N) end of building. INTERIOR wholly altered. (Bone M: Barnstaple's Industrial Archaeology: Exeter: 1973-: 14).

Listing NGR: SS5555433211

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Legacy System number:: 485561
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bone, M , Barnstaple's Industrial Archaeology, (1973), 14

Legal

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