37, PILTON STREET
37, PILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 37, PILTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, PILTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 37, PILTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, PILTON 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:
- 37, PILTON 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 55673 34069
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534 PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/2/358 (West side)
19/01/51 No.37
GV II
House. Early C17 with later alterations. Formerly a single
dwelling with No.36 (qv) adjoining to the S, but the 2
buildings are said to have been rented and treated separately
until 1711 (Reed, p.149). Owned by the Pilton United
Charities.
Mass wall construction, rendered; slate roof, gabled at ends;
brick end stacks. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide with a
central passage taken out of the width of the left-hand room.
Present staircase is C20, rear or left-hand room, but may be
in position of original.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window range. All windows are
12-pane horned sashes. Front door to left of centre has 6
fielded panels, upper panels glazed, with sash adjacent to
left. 2 ground-floor windows to right of front door, 2
first-floor windows.
INTERIOR: ground-floor right has room with (incomplete) single
rib ceiling. First floor has one old oak door-frame with a
stud door and step down into first-floor left room which has a
C17 plaster wall frieze. First-floor right has a coved ceiling
and rib patterns on the walls.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the earliest documentation for the house,
mentioned by Reed, is in a Trust Deed of 1577 in which several
Pilton charities were merged. From 1711 to 1845 it was rented
out as one dwelling with No.36 (qv).
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
149; Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Diver B:
1914-: 193).
Listing NGR: SS5567334069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485740
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 149
Diver, B, Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1914), 193
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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