8, CROSS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385114
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: 8, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: 8, CROSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385114
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: 8, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 8, 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:: 8, 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 55733 33177

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CROSS STREET 684-1/7/104 (North side) 19/01/51 No.8

GV II*

House and shop. c1635, remodelled externally early or mid C19. Rendered front, probably of brick or timber-framing; rear wall of stone rubble with segmental red brick window arches. Structure of side walls uncertain, but front end of left side wall is clear of brick in 3rd storey. Slated roofs; front block has 2 roofs at right angles to street, hipped front and back, the front hips linked to resemble a parallel roof. In centre of right-hand roof, 4 original, diagonally set chimneys of red brick. Late C19 or early C20 red brick chimney on left side wall. Wide-fronted, double-depth plan 1 room wide with gallery and back block; front block with double chimney between front and back rooms, dogleg staircase to left of back room. 2nd-floor plan has 4 original rooms, 2 at the front with entrance lobby. Ground-storey partitions removed and courtyard glazed over to form deep shop through both blocks. 3 storeys; back block reduced to 1 storey. 4-window range. Late C20 shop front in ground storey. Upper-storey windows have sashes in recessed box-frames; in 2nd storey sashes have horns and 2 upright glazing bars to each upper sash with margin panes, in 3rd storey 6-paned sashes without horns. Wooden eaves cornice. INTERIOR: many original features. Ground storey has single-rib ceiling and frieze in what was originally rear room of front block. At rear of back block a painted limestone chimneypiece removed from front block; Tudor arch with sunk spandrels, ogee and ovolo mouldings, urn stops. Similar chimneypiece in first-floor front room, but without the paint. Rear first-floor room has another single rib ceiling with a section of frieze in cupboard on right-hand (E side of chimney-breast). Chamfered door-frames with scroll-stops at entrances to gallery and staircase. Latter of wood with closed strings, turned balusters and a high moulded handrail. Second floor has original door-frames to all rooms, chamfered and with scroll-stops as on the floor below. A small lobby giving access to the 2 front doors with moulded ribs; studded plank door to gallery. Right-hand (east) front room has wooden bolection-moulded chimneypiece. Gallery has wooden, 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions. Roof timbers accessible only at rear left-hand side; trusses with threaded purlins and ridge, collars pegged (not halved) high up on faces of principal rafters. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was town property, leased to Richard Harris the younger of Barnstaple, yeoman in 1634, on condition that he rebuilt it within 5 years at a cost of »200. Building probably started in 1635, since No.7 (qv) which was rebuilt in that year, took in part of No.8's ground. The freehold was sold off in 1921. (Title deeds; North Devon Athenaeum: Borough Records, Lease No.172).

Listing NGR: SS5572833182

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Legacy System number:: 485576
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'North Devon Athenaeum' in Borough Records, Lease No 172, ()
Other
Title Deeds to No. 8 Cross Street, Barnstaple,

Legal

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