The Rock Including Terrace and Garden Walls
THE ROCK INCLUDING TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS, 50, 51 AND 52, PILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385281
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock Including Terrace and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROCK INCLUDING TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS, 50, 51 AND 52, PILTON STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12628/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385281
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock Including Terrace and Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROCK INCLUDING TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS, 50, 51 AND 52, 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:
- THE ROCK INCLUDING TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS, 50, 51 AND 52, 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 55760 34153
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534 PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/2/361 (West side)
31/12/73 Nos.50, 51 AND 52 The Rock,
including terrace and garden walls
GV II
3 houses, possibly originally one. c1810. Roughcast; slate
roof, hipped to Nos 50 & 53; stacks with brick shafts and old
pots. U-plan; main range with projecting front wings to left
and right; these may always have been separate units, as now,
or may have been wings to a single house.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 1:3:1-window range. Eaves board. No.51
has central round-headed doorway with fielded-panelled reveals
and fielded-panelled door with fanlight with applied pattern.
2 ground- and 3 first-floor 16-pane horned sashes. Wings each
have one first-floor 16-pane horned sash and a tall
round-headed recess on the ground floor containing C20 front
doors with glazed side panels.
INTERIOR: No.51 has a half-glazed C19 rear door, original
joinery and a stick baluster stair rising from and parallel to
the entrance passage.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the houses are raised high above the
street with a stone terrace wall which includes a cellar door
at street level and cellar below the terrace with steps up to
the area in front of No.51. Stone rubble garden walls with
bullnose brick coping.
Listing NGR: SS5576034153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485743
- 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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