17, LITCHDON STREET
17, LITCHDON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385207
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 17, LITCHDON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, LITCHDON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385207
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 17, LITCHDON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, LITCHDON 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:
- 17, LITCHDON 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 56082 32829
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 LITCHDON STREET
684-1/5/191 (North East side)
31/08/88 No.17
GV II
Formerly known as: Litchdon Terrace LITCHDON STREET.
House, now offices. 1821, with minor alterations later in C19
and in 1925. Solid, rendered walls. Slated roof with low
parapets on gable-ends; latter have red brick chimneys with
projecting brick-course and moulded cap forming an
entablature. Double-fronted. 2 rooms deep, with central
entrance-passage leading to rear staircase.
3 storeys. 3-window range. Windows flat-headed with moulded
architraves and cills; later sashes with horns, having 2
upright glazing bars forming margin-panes. Round-arched
doorway recessed within a larger round arch having moulded
architrave. 6-panelled door with knocker, flanked by
pilasters; plain fanlight. Pilaster at each end of front, that
on right shared with No.18 (qv). Moulded eaves cornice.
Several barred sashes in rear wall.
INTERIOR: in 1985 had rooms with moulded cornices, some
enriched, on ground floor. Original wooden chimneypiece in
right-hand front room. Large segmental-arched opening (then
blocked) with moulded architrave, between left-hand front and
back rooms. Entrance lobby had ceiling with groined plaster
vault, the latter with small flower in centre. Passage had
moulded cornice and 2 doors with 6 ovolo-moulded panels.
Staircase rebuilt in 1925 by Mr Thorne of Bear Street; turned
balusters in early Georgian style with Jacobean turned newels.
On left-hand side of back garden was an old cob wall, probably
pre-dating the house.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1821 the Corporation leased the sites of
Nos 17 & 18 (qv) to Nicholas Glass, who had 'erected and built
2 good and substantial dwelling houses on the premises .... on
a certain plan and elevation approved of by them.' No.19 had
been 'lately erected' by Philip Hodge of Barnstaple, builder,
who may have built the whole terrace. The lease includes a
plan of the house as existing (allowing for obvious
alterations). The Corporation sold the freehold in 1925. Part
of a formerly uniform terrace including Nos 18, 19 & 20 (qv).
(Barnstaple Borough Records: BOX 19/4; Title Deed).
Listing NGR: SS5608232829
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485669
- 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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