Liberal Club
LIBERAL CLUB, 9, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385115
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 9, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385115
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 9, CROSS 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:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 9, 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 55726 33170
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE CROSS STREET
684-1/7/105 (North side)
31/08/88 No.9
Liberal Club
GV II
Post Office (1862-1902), now club and offices. Front rebuilt
1883; basic structure may be older. Later additions at rear.
Rendered, solid walls. Slated mansard roof with 2 mid or late
C19 red brick chimneys on the ridge. Double-depth plan with
long rear wing (probably the post office sorting room) on
right-hand side.
2 storeys with garret. 3-window range; strongly emphasised
Classical design with particular prominence given to the
right-hand, entrance bay. Ground storey rusticated and
finished with an entablature. To left, 2 windows with moulded
architraves and large triangular pedimentson consoles, the
latter set against the entablature and overlapping the second
storey windows. To right, doorway with panelled double doors
flanked by Doric columns between antae. Upper storey has
rusticated quoins to left, right-hand bay flanked by
rusticated pilasters. Front finished with entablature having
dentilled cornice and surmounted by a parapet. The 2 left-hand
windows have moulded architraves. Plain sashes at front. Some
original 6-pane sashes in rear walls of main range and wing.
INTERIOR: (as in 1988 list description) contains no visible
features of interest, but the front range could have early
features hidden under plaster.
This was the main Barnstaple Post Office before the building
of No.10 Cross Street (qv).
(Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-97: 1897-: 39-40).
Listing NGR: SS5571833176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485577
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardiner, W F, Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 39-40
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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