85, HIGH STREET
85, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385169
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 85, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 85, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385169
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 85, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 85, 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:
- 85, 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 55782 33214
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE HIGH STREET
684-1/7/154 (West side)
31/08/88 No.85
GV II
House and shop, now building society offices. Mid C19.
Rendered walls, probably of brick. Slated roof.
3 storeys. 1-window range to High Street, 5 windows to Cross
Street; one window on recessed, rounded corner. Ground storey
has round-arched openings, 3 to High Street, one on the corner
and 7 to Cross Street. Pilaster strips, originally rusticated,
flank the 3 High Street openings and the corner opening, and
also divide the Cross Street openings into pairs. The present
entrance is in the High Street front; it was originally on the
corner.
Ground storey is finished with a moulded cornice; this breaks
forward over each pilaster, being decorated with a lion-head
and supported by a scroll. On the corner the cornice is
dentilled and supported by a shell-like bracket. Upper-storey
windows have plain architraves. Towards High Street the
windows have a `Venetian' 3-light arrangement set in a broad
cement frame rising through both storeys; early photograph
shows ornate cornices and brackets have been removed (Baxter &
Baxter). All 2nd-storey windows have low balustrades in front
and contain French windows with 4 panes each. 2nd-storey
windows have 4-pane sashes; continuous cill-band towards Cross
Street and on the corner. Fronts are finished with a broad
band surmounted by a patterned balustrade divided by panelled
pedestals, the pedestals towards High Street decorated with
rosettes.
INTERIOR not inspected. This building is included for its
group value and its prominent position in the High Street, at
the corner of Cross Street. It was formerly a chemist's shop.
(Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PL 42;
Knights Photographers, Barnstaple: Photograph No.F524).
Listing NGR: SS5577633211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980)
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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