38 AND 38A, HIGH STREET
38 AND 38A, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385153
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 38 AND 38A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 38 AND 38A, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385153
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 38 AND 38A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38 AND 38A, 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:
- 38 AND 38A, 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 55758 33335
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE HIGH STREET
684-1/7/137 (East side)
31/08/88 Nos.38 AND 38A
GV II
Originally probably single house, now pair of shops with
storage and flat above. C16 or early C17, remodelled C18; rear
wing of No.38a probably a C18 or early C19 addition. Rendered,
solid walls. Right-hand gable is of stone rubble, left-hand
gable (probably belonging structurally to No.39 (qv)) of
brick; rear wall of wing is of stone rubble with timber-bonded
brick at the top. Slated roof; rear wing has lean-to roof. 2
red-brick chimneys of C18 or early C19 on left wall of wing;
large chimney at front end, smaller one at rear surmounted by
a good C19 chimney-pot with pockets. Single-depth front range,
now 3 rooms wide on first floor; rear wing, probably 2 rooms
deep originally, on left side.
3 storeys. 3-window range. Ground storey has C20 shop fronts.
Upper storeys have sashes in recessed box-frame; mid or late
C19 sashes with horns, each sash now having 2 upright glazing
bars, ground-floor window right boarded up in 1993. Wooden
eaves cornice; iron gutter decorated with lion-heads.
INTERIORS: front part of shop at No.38A has ceiling with old
moulded plasterwork; wreath in centre probably early C18,
rectangular reed moulding of uncertain date round the edge.
Heavy plastered beam running from front to back; similar beams
in first-floor rooms of both sections of the building. Remains
of C18 moulded plaster cornice in first-floor front room of
No.38A.
Roof has 4 trusses (2 in each section) with short curved feet
at the front; wall has been heightened so these now visible in
2nd-floor rooms. Trusses have 2 tiers of through purlins and
an angled ridge resting in a slot at the apex; housings remain
for former halved collars with shaped ends. Gouged carpenter's
marks. Rear feet of trusses buried in wall. It is reported
that No.38A formerly contained a stair with an `acorn' newel
post.
C16 roof trusses with crucked feet of this kind are rare
examples of regional vernacular. Fireplaces, beams and other
features of interest are likely to be concealed under the
plaster. Partly empty at time of survey.
Listing NGR: SS5575833335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485615
- 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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