98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385237
Date first listed:
31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:
98-104, NEWPORT ROAD
Statutory Address:
98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385237
Date first listed:
31-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Sept-1999
List Entry Name:
98-104, NEWPORT ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

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:
98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

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 56350 32510

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 NEWPORT ROAD, Newport
684-1/5/266 (South West side)
31/12/73 Nos.98-104 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWPORT ROAD, Newport
(South side)
Nos.98 TO 108 (Consecutive))

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.1 to 7 (Consecutive) Nelson Terrace
NEWPORT ROAD.
Terrace of 7 houses. 1834 onwards. Solid rendered walls.
Slated roofs. Chimneys on party walls between Nos 98-103;
mostly rendered, but that at Nos 98 & 99 and part of that at
Nos 99 & 100 are of old red brick. C20 red brick chimney on
right end wall of No.104.
2 storeys with garrets (probably inserted later) at Nos 99,
101, 102 & 104; basements. No.98 is 3-window range with centre
doorway; Nos 99 & 100, 3-window range with doorways to right;
Nos 101 & 102, 2-window range with doorway to right; No.103,
3-window range with centre doorway, No.104, 2-window range
with doorway to left. Otherwise, the terrace is built to a
uniform design.
Bead-moulded, round-arched doorways; flanking pilasters
supporting triglyphed entablatures with modillioned cornices.
6-panelled doors with centre bead-moulding; at Nos 100, 102 &
104, the top 4 panels have been filled with leaded coloured
glass; No.99 has a glazed mid/late C20 wood door. Raised band
above ground storey, except at right-hand end of No.104, where
it has been removed. No.98 has flanking giant panelled
pilasters, possibly a later addition.
Almost all the windows have barred sashes; 8 over 12 panes in
ground storey, 8 over 8 panes above, except that the window
above the doorway has 6 over 6 panes. At No.103 the
ground-storey windows have been altered; in that to left the
lower sash now has only a single upright glazing bar; in that
to right the sashes have been replaced by a single sheet of
glass. At No.104 the ground-storey window has been replaced by
a mid C19 canted wood bay; lights have rounded top corners,
2-paned sashes with a horizontal glazing bar, the middle light
also with margin-panes; bracketed top cornice with fluting
between the brackets.
Stepped board below the eaves, except at No.103 which now has
a plain board. Nos 99 & 100 have old (possibly original)
rainwater-heads decorated with a floral motif. No.99 has a
small flat-topped dormer with plain wood casements. No.102 has
a late C19 dormer with glazed sides and cambered top; 2-paned
sashes, shaped eaves-board; No.104 has a C20 flat-topped
dormer with metal casements. INTERIORS not inspected.
This was until C20 Nos 1-7 Nelson Terrace.

Listing NGR: SS5635032510

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
485699
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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