Parish Hall Including Boundary Wall and Gates Enclosing Front Lawn
PARISH HALL INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES ENCLOSING FRONT LAWN, PATERNOSTER ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385252
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Hall Including Boundary Wall and Gates Enclosing Front Lawn
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH HALL INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES ENCLOSING FRONT LAWN, PATERNOSTER ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385252
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Hall Including Boundary Wall and Gates Enclosing Front Lawn
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH HALL INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES ENCLOSING FRONT LAWN, PATERNOSTER ROW
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:
- PARISH HALL INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES ENCLOSING FRONT LAWN, PATERNOSTER ROW
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 55879 33190
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558331SE PATERNOSTER ROW
684-1/9/211 (South side)
31/08/88 Parish Hall including boundary wall
and gates enclosing front lawn
GV II
Parish hall, originally called Parish Rooms. 1894-5. By WC
Oliver of Barnstaple. Squared stone rubble with limestone
dressings; quoins and relieving arches of a purplish local
stone. Slated roof with red ridge-tiles pierced with a trefoil
pattern. Stone chimney with crenellated top on left gable.
2 storeys. 6-bay front in Gothic style. Main hall on first
floor approached by long flights of stone steps leading to
doorways in right-hand bay and in second bay from left. Ground
storey has trefoil-headed windows with plain, chamfered
surrounds. More elaborate traceried windows with pointed
arches in upper storey. Those between the 2 doorways are
paired, with central column having shaft of red sandstone.
Patterned glazing. Doorways have 2-centred pointed arches and
are set in slight projections with battlemented tops. Steps in
front have side walls of stone with chamfered copings. Both
gable walls (visible from Church Lane and Paternoster Row)
have traceried windows. Against left gable is a low,
flat-roofed projection with battlements and with windows
having pointed arches.
INTERIOR: according to 1988 list description, is plain, except
that hall on upper floor has arch-braced roof-trusses and a
carved cornice.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lawn in front of hall has stone rubble
boundary wall, with chamfered coping, on N and W sides. Main
entrance from Paternoster Row has rectangular ashlar gate
piers with chamfered corners. Upon them stand iron lamp-posts
with twisted and fluted shafts; original lamps missing. Pair
of openwork iron gates decorated with scrolls and 4-leaved
flowers. On the corner of Church Lane is a smaller openwork
iron gate decorated with quatrefoils and spearheads.
(North Devon Journal: 21.12.1893, 14.6.1894).
Listing NGR: SS5587933190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485714
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Devon Journal in 14 June, (1894)
North Devon Journal in 21 December, (1893)
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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