The Rock
THE ROCK, 78 AND 79, PILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385287
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROCK, 78 AND 79, PILTON STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13227/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385287
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROCK, 78 AND 79, 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, 78 AND 79, 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 55699 34097
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/2/363 (East side)
31/12/73 Nos.78 AND 79 The Rock
GV II
2 houses. No.79 is certainly C17 or earlier in origin and
appears to have been part of a single build with No.80 (qv).
Both these houses remodelled in the late C19 or early C20.
Roughcast; slate roof; right end stack with stone shaft and
old pot. Left end stack with rendered shaft and 2 old pots.
No.79 retains a single-depth main range with one heated room
to the right with a newel stair rising from it and a cross
passage to the left. Blocked doorway to No.80.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:2-window range, 3 windows to the
ground floor. No.79 has a half-glazed C20 front door to the
left; recessed C20 front door to the right of No.78.
Ground-floor windows mixture of small-pane casements and
sashes. 4 first-floor gabled dormers glazed with one over
one-pane sashes with margin panes.
INTERIOR: No.79 inspected. Chamfered ground-floor beams with
pyramidal stops and newel stair. First-floor partitions appear
to be secondary, ceiling plastered over the trusses with no
access to apex-trusses appear to have cruck-like feet and
large purlins. Said to be garderobe off top of stair. No.78
may contain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SS5569934096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485749
- 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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