65, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385160
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: 65, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 65, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385160
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: 65, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 65, HIGH 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:: 65, 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 55714 33375

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET 684-1/7/145 (West side) 31/08/88 No.65

GV II

House and shop. Late C17 with altered front of late C19 or early C20; front block is probably older. Walls, where the material is exposed in the front and left side wall of the back block, and in the rear part of the left side wall of the front block, are of plastered red brick (probably Flemish bond) on a high stone rubble plinth. Rear wall of front block has been rebuilt in late C20 brick. Front (to street) is stuccoed. Roofs are slated, with each block hipped at the front; rear part of roof of front block has been demolished and replaced by a C20 flat roof. C18 or early C19 red brick chimney, with projecting courses forming a cap, on left side wall of front block. Back block has similar chimney at front end of left side wall. Plan consists of front and back blocks, each one room wide, separated by a courtyard; front block is 2 rooms deep with central staircase, back block one room deep with rear staircase. The blocks were never connected by a first-floor gallery, as occurs elsewhere. Ground storey has been gutted and now consists of one deep room extending as far as the rear staircase, the courtyard having been glazed over. 3 storeys with garret in front block; 2 storeys with garret in back block. Front is 1-window wide. Ground and 2nd storeys have a tall round-arched opening with moulded architrave and keyblock; the shop windows within the opening have been reconstructed since about 1927. Above the arch is an unsupported entablature with enriched cornice and guttae. Third storey has a single casement window with moulded architrave; ornate cast-iron balcony in front. Bracketed eaves cornice and parapet complete the facade. Earlier brickwork at rear has raised band at first-floor level. Back block has 2 box-framed, 6-pane sashes in front wall of upper storey, and another in each of the side walls; left side wall has in addition an original mullioned-and-transomed wood casement window with transom set high up. INTERIOR: rear ground-floor fireplace of front block has plain wood lintel and lining of compacted red brick dust with incised lines to imitate brick courses. Upper floors have geometrical wood staircase with thin square-section balusters. First floor has a good C19 cast-iron grate in rear room and 2-panelled doors with applied bolection mouldings. Second floor has fireplaces with early C18 moulded wood surrounds and C19 cast-iron grates; behind the surround, front room fireplace has ovolo-moulded wood lintel with run-out stops, the interior and outer faces of the opening covered with white and yellow plaster, the yellow bearing faint traces of a pattern. Rear wall of room contains truss from earlier, and lower, roof. Remains of moulded butt purlins and ridge; trenched collars held by nail and peg at each end, the main section between the principals cut away. Hip rafters, which appear to be original, are nailed. Trusses have notched apexes; gouged carpenter's marks. In roof space there are visible a stone chimney breast on right hand side and a brick one on left-hand side. Back block has a large fireplace in left side of ground storey with plain brick jambs and plain wood lintel; brick chimney breast in approximate English bond. Remains of a panelled room to rear of fireplace with bolection-moulded panelling in 2 heights surviving on left and rear walls; box-cornice. An early C18 cupboard with round-arched double doors has been inserted on left side. Evidence of former passage on right-hand side of room. At rear a tight, early or mid C19 wooden geometrical stair with shaped step-ends and thin square-section balusters. C18 or early C19 roof-structure with principal rafters crossing at apex to hold the ridge; lightly trenched purlins, no collar. This is one of the 2 best of the Barnstaple houses with detached back blocks, themselves a rare English urban plan type. The roof of the front block is of considerable local interest. (Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PLS 77, 78).

Listing NGR: SS5571433375

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Sources

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Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980)

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