4, CROSS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385111
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: 4, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: 4, CROSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385111
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: 4, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 4, CROSS 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:: 4, CROSS 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 55756 33199

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CROSS STREET 684-1/7/101 (North side) 19/01/51 No.4

GV II

House, now offices and hairdresser's salon. C19, incorporating a C16 or C17 house at N end. Solid, rendered walls, probably of brick and stone; rear gable of front part is slate-hung. Slated roofs, except for the C16 or C17 part fronting Paige's Lane, which has pantiles on the rear (W) slope. Red brick chimneys on rear gable of wing of C19 building and on left (W) side wall of C16 or C17 building. Plan consists of 3 parts. At the front is a mid or late C19 range with an early or mid C19 rear wing fronting Paige's Lane, behind that again is the C16 or C17 range, with a parallel range of similar date alongside part of it to the left (W). Front part 3-storeyed, remainder 2-storeyed. 3-window range to Cross Street, the right-hand window placed on the slightly inset splayed corner. Ground storey has late C19 shop front extending on to part of Paige's Lane frontage; entablature with dentilled cornice. 2nd-storey windows have eared architraves, the left-hand pair with keyblocks. Raised band at 2nd-floor level. 2 canted bay windows in 3rd storey, that to left set in a segmental-headed recess. Front finished with a gable, made lop-sided to fit the splayed corner. Return front to Paige's Lane has a window in each of ground and 2nd storeys, the lower one blocked. Rear wing to right of this is 3-window range. To left of ground storey is a large early or mid C19 shop window with 3 rows of 12 panes; flanking pilasters and entablature. Sashes in upper storey. C16 or C17 range to right has a similar shop window, but with 3 rows of 10 panes and no pilasters; to left of it 2 windows of similar date with fixed 9-pane sashes, a transom-light having been inserted into the left-hand window. C20 door at right-hand end. Upper-storey windows all C20. INTERIOR: the C19 building has little of interest, but the C16 or C17 ranges retain early roofs and probably other features at present plastered or boarded in. The E range, adjoining Paige's Lane, has a 5-bay roof with 4 arch-braces: remaining trusses are late medieval with cambered collars and slots for one tier of butt purlins; arch-braces chamfered, with open spandrels. Existing purlins, also old, lie on the backs of trusses; feet of trusses and braces cut off and replaced by C20 wood brackets. The roof may have been re-used, though at an early date, the storey heights and positioning of the first-floor beams suggest at least a C16 or C17 building. Shorter range on W side has doorway with chamfered wood frame at N end. Roof has plain, old trusses with through purlins. HISTORICAL NOTE: the front part of No.4 was Corporation property, leased in 1630 to Edward Eastman, merchant, on preferential terms in consideration of his spending »40 in `new building' it. His successor in 1636, Nicholas Cooke, had also laid out `great cost and charges' in building, but it is not clear whether this included the earlier parts of the present building. In 1704 the rooms were listed in detail to distinguish the freehold from the leasehold parts, and it may be that the property adjoining the freehold section, the `little house now or late in the possession of one Leming Dickingson next on the North parte', was the one with the arch-braced roof. The bonded warehouse at the rear of the Paige's Lane frontage, mentioned in the former list description, has been demolished. For a view of the lane before this and other demolitions, see Baxter & Baxter, `Barnstaple Yesterday', plate 114. (North Devon Athenaeum: Borough records, Leases Nos.160, 384, 373, 271, 390; Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PL 114).

Listing NGR: SS5575133204

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Sources

Books and journals
Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980)
Other
Borough Records, Leases Nos 160, 384, 373, 271, 390, North Devon Athenaeum,

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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.