86 AND 86A, HIGH STREET, 21, CROSS STREET

21, CROSS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385170
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: 86 AND 86A, HIGH STREET, 21, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: 21, CROSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385170
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: 86 AND 86A, HIGH STREET, 21, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 86 AND 86A, 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:: 21, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: 86 AND 86A, 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 55780 33196

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET 684-1/7/155 (West side) 31/08/88 Nos.86 AND 86A

GV II

Includes: No.21 CROSS STREET. National Provincial Bank, later shop, building society and other offices. 1854, with slightly later extension at far end of Cross Street front. High Street front of oolitic limestone ashlar; return to Cross Street of red brick with similar stone dressings. Rear wing to Cross Street of red brick with dressings of limestone and granite. Roof of main range not visible from street, but has red brick chimney with moulded stone cap and 3 chimneypots with pockets at right-hand end of return front. Rear wing has slated mansard roof. 2-room plan to main range; main and back stairs in rear wing. Italianate style. 3 storeys, with garret over rear wing. Main range has 2-window range to High Street and 3 windows to Cross Street. Ground storey rebuilt in C20. Upper storeys to High Street are rusticated, with pedestal course below the 2nd-storey windows and a modillioned top cornice. Left-hand window in each storey has an eared architrave. Right-hand side has matching window in 2nd storey set in a recess rising through both storeys. Square flanking columns between antae support an entablature, above which is a round arch with scroll keystone; within the arch is a cartouche carrying a coat of arms and flanked by horns of plenty. Beneath them is carved NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK. Balustraded balcony in front of the window. Flanking the recess is a pair of attached columns with enriched Ionic capitals. Entablature breaks forward above each one, where it is surmounted by a large urn. Return front to Cross Street has broad rusticated pilaster and section of entablature at each end; windows in centre have eared architraves, those in 2nd storey with pulvinated friezes and cornices. Rear wing is 4-windows wide; segmental-headed windows with keystones, those in upper storey with barred sashes. Pedestal-course below 2nd storey. Left-hand bay differs in having a round-arched stair window, set in a shallow recess rising through 2nd and 3rd storeys. In ground storey, second bay from right has round arched doorway with rusticated granite surround; fanlight with ornate cast-iron grille. The original ground storey to High Street, with rusticated masonry, is shown in a photograph of 1881. INTERIOR: first-floor front rooms have cornices enriched with rosettes and egg-and-dart. Left-hand room has white marble chimneypiece with flanking pilasters, frieze and moulded shelf; pilasters have incised decoration, frieze has fleur-de-lys at each end and wreath in centre. Cast-iron grate inscribed WRIGHTS PATENT BIVALVE. Plainer marble chimneypieces on second floor and in wing. Main stair, rising from first floor, is a wooden open-well with closed strings, thin, round iron balusters and continuous handrail; latter is voluted at the foot round a lily pattern iron newel. HISTORICAL NOTE: the National Provincial Bank opened its branch on this site in 1835. In 1854 RD Gould advertised for a contractor to rebuild the bank according to a design prepared by the architect to the bank. It is not clear whether the architect was Gould himself or someone employed nationally by the bank. (North Devon Journal: 20.4.1854: Barnstaple: 1854-: 8; Churches File; Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-1897: 1897-: 238).

Listing NGR: SS5578033196

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Legacy System number:: 485632
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, W F , Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 238
'North Devon Journal' in 20 April, (1854), 8

Legal

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