21, JOY STREET
21, JOY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385197
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21, JOY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21, JOY STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385197
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21, JOY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, JOY 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:
- 21, JOY 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 55845 33346
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE JOY STREET
684-1/7/185 (North side)
31/08/88 No.21
GV II
House and shop. Early C19 with small mid and late C19
additions at rear. Solid, rendered walls, probably of brick;
the rear wing and late C19 addition are partly of exposed
brick. Slated roofs, hipped at the corner with Green Lane. Mid
C19 addition covered with corrugated iron. Red brick chimneys
with projecting courses forming a cap, on ridge off-centre to
right and on left side wall fronting Green Lane. Shaft of red
brick chimney, its top removed, against rear gable wall of
Lane. Parallel to and adjoining this wing on the right is a
further wing of similar date. To the right of that again is a
small extension to rear of main range, probably added in mid
C19.
3 storeys. 4-window range to Joy Street with 3-window return
to Green Lane; one window on rounded corner. Ground storey to
Joy Street altered in C20, with shop windows set back behind
an arcade; windows to Green Lane blocked. Upper-storey windows
have sashes in plain surrounds. The 2 right-hand windows in
each storey to Joy Street have original 6-paned sashes; second
window from left in 3rd storey is blind. Towards Green Lane
the right-hand window in each upper storey is also blind;
remainder have original 6-paned sashes. Modillioned and
dentilled eaves cornice. Late C19 addition has 6-panelled
door, probably reused.
At rear (visible from car park in Green Lane) the right-hand
of the 2 rear wings has an old 6-paned sash in rear gable
wall. On the inward facing side wall is an early C19 bow
window with small paned sashes. Mid C19 addition to main range
has 2 casement windows with margin panes containing coloured
glass. INTERIOR not inspected.
The building has considerable townscape value, looking
eastwards down Joy Street. It is matched by Nos 9 & 10 (qv) on
the opposite side of the street.
Listing NGR: SS5584533346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485659
- 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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