9-12, HIGH STREET
9-12, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385138
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 9-12, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9-12, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385138
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 9-12, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9-12, HIGH 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:
- 9-12, HIGH 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 55846 33137
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558331 HIGH STREET
684-1/9/123 (East side)
31/12/73 Nos.9-12 (Consecutive)
GV II
Shops and bank with accommodation and/or offices over.
c1865-75. High Street elevation stuccoed. Church Lane
elevation Flemish bond yellow brick; slate roof; stacks not
visible from street. Italianate style. Deep plan on a corner
site between Church Lane and High Street.
3 storeys. 7-bay elevation to High Street plus corner bay,
bowed to ground and first floor but canted to second floor.
Rusticated, chamfered quoins; enriched eaves treatment with
cresting and an elaborate corbelled cornice with modillions
and a dentil frieze above an eaves band. Treatment of ground
floor varies, architectural detail well preserved above.
Late C19 or early C20 shop front to No.12 with a deep cornice
above the fascia and consoles to the bowed corner bay and
canted plate-glass windows with moulded standards to the High
Street. The bank has a probably early C20 front with 2
composite sandstone columns and a rusticated doorway to the
right with a projecting cornice above the fascia. No.9 has a
late C20 shopfront. Tall first-floor 12-pane sashes (some
horned replacements) have eared, shouldered architraves and
alternating semicircular and triangular pediments. Tripartite,
pilastered bow window to corner bay with moulded cornice and
cill. Second-floor windows have eared architraves and
corbelled cills and are glazed with 3 over 6-pane sashes.
Flat-roofed dormers. The left return, to Church Lane, has one
over one-pane sashes arranged in pairs and threes.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This building occupies a prominent corner site in the High
Street
Listing NGR: SS5584633137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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