94, HIGH STREET

94, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385178
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1981
List Entry Name:
94, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
94, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385178
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1981
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Sept-1999
List Entry Name:
94, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
94, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
94, 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 55807 33153

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS558331SE HIGH STREET
684-1/9/163 (West side)
22/06/81 No.94
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.94 AND 95)

GV II

House, now shop with offices above. Early C18, remodelled
externally in mid C19; ground storey extended at rear in late
C20. Solid rendered front. Roof not visible from street. First
floor is 2 rooms wide and one room deep with chimney in
centre. Passage at rear, reached from street by late C20
staircase at left-hand end. C18 stair compartment behind
right-hand room.
3 storeys. 4-window range. Late C20 shop front and 6-panelled
house door in ground storey. Windows in upper storey have
eared architraves, those in 2nd storey with friezes and
cornices, those in 3rd storey with bracketed cills; all have
plain sashes. C20 'eaves cornice' composed of stepped boards.
INTERIOR: first floor only inspected; second floor, seen in
the 1970s, had no features of interest. Right-hand first-floor
room has raised-and-fielded, one-fillet, ovolo-moulded panels;
plain dado with moulded rail and skirting, now truncated,
probably as a result of heightening the ground storey; boxed
cornice.
At either end of rear wall a 6-panelled door matching the wall
panels; moulded architraves and panelled reveals. Panelled
shutters and window-seat to match. Original ceiling with
bolection-moulded ribs; round centre panel with 4 shaped
spandrel-panels. Late C18 wood chimneypiece with panelled
pilasters and entablature, all enriched and decorated with
festoons; at either end of frieze a female draped figure, that
to right with scales, that to left with lion; in centre a
raised panel with oval flanked by festoons. Cast-iron grate,
probably mid C19; round-arched enriched surround, turning
outwards at the bottom, basket grate missing.
Straight flight early C18 wooden staircase rising to second
floor; carved step-ends, turned balusters, moulded handrail
ramped up over a column-newel at the top. First-floor landing
has boxed cornice; window with 6-paned sashes.


Listing NGR: SS5581233149

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
485640
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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