26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385148
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385148
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 27, 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:
- 26 AND 27, 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 55799 33229
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS855332 HIGH STREET
684-1/8/133 (East side)
19/01/51 Nos.26 AND 27
GV II
House with later shop on the ground floor. c1860s, rear block,
to which Nos 1 & 2 Butchers' Row (qv) are attached, may be
earlier, contemporary with Butchers' Row (qv). Stuccoed; slate
roofs (rear block with flat roof); rear stack has brick shaft
and yellow chimney pot with scalloped cresting.
On an important corner site between the High Street and
Butchers' Row, with a canted corner. T-plan block with rear
centre wing and block behind Butchers' Row in angle between
rear wing and main block.
3 storeys. 1:3-window range to High Street; 2:4-window range
to Butchers' Row. Deep projecting eaves cornice on moulded
brackets; eaves band; platband at second-floor cill level;
windows with moulded architraves; second-floor windows with
moulded cill blocks. Shop front has a dentil cornice and
plate-glass windows with panelled pilasters; C20 shopfront to
right.
First-floor windows glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes with
margin panes, except left-hand bay, which is a tripartite sash
with a more elaborate architrave and a floating cornice on
consoles with a semicircular pediment over the centre.
First-floor windows are one over one-pane sashes with margin
panes, except to left bay, which is tripartite. Canted corner
and 4 bays of Butchers' Row elevation have similar details and
windows. To the left, slightly set back, a block with a 2-bay
front to Butchers' Row has a second-floor platband and similar
windows, the first-floor windows with keyblocks. INTERIOR not
inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5580233230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485610
- 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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