99, HIGH STREET
99, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385181
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 99, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 99, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385181
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 99, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 99, 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:
- 99, 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 55825 33125
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558331SE HIGH STREET
684-1/9/166 (West side)
31/12/73 No.99
GV II
House, now offices. Probably early C18, remodelled and shop
front inserted mid C19. Rendered front, probably brick or
timber-framing; thick rear wall to front block, probably
stone. Slated roof, hipped to street. Late C19 red brick
chimney on left side wall.
Front range one room wide and 2 rooms deep; rear room
subdivided and in 3rd storey has newel stair to roof space in
left-hand section, possibly the position of the whole original
staircase.
Short rear wing in 2 builds to left. Front section has
early/mid C19 staircase to right. Rear section extends across
whole width of plot, creating a small courtyard/light-well
behind front block.
3 storeys. 2-window range. Ground storey has well-preserved
mid C19 shop front, probably the best of its date now
surviving in Barnstaple. Consists of a pair of canted display
window with recessed doorway between them; house door to
right. Whole shop section flanked by panelled pilasters above
which are ornate bracketed blocks decorated with lion-heads;
entablature between them. Display windows have a single row of
horizontal glazing bars, heads of lights have curved corners
with sunk spandrels. Three-quarter-glazed double shop doors
with solid moulded panels at the bottom. Upper-storey windows
have moulded architraves with decorated top corners; plain
sashes. Front flanked by raised quoins. Dentilled top cornice
and parapet, the former broken by a triangular projecting
clock; each of 2 faces has a triangular pediment with Gothic
panelling in the centre, and a crenellated base.
INTERIOR: ground-storey rooms wholly altered, except that
entrance passage survives to right. Wood staircase with narrow
open well rises from 2nd to 3rd storey; thin square balusters,
column-newels with small turned pendants. Second-storey front
room has early/mid C19 painted wood chimneypiece with moulded
surround. Front wing room has moulded cornice, possibly early
C18.
Rear section of wing has roughly-chamfered ceiling beam,
8-paned sash-window to light well. 3rd-storey front room has
early/mid C19 chimneypiece with painted wood surround;
enriched iron basket grate. Stair to roof space has octagonal
wood newel; room adjoining has early C18 two-panelled door
with raised-and-fielded panels having one-fillet
ovolo-mouldings. Roof of front block has heavy principal
rafters, through-purlins and ridge; no evidence of collars.
Front has been hipped back later and rough, straight
windbraces added.
Listing NGR: SS5582533125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485643
- 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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