South Street Auction Rooms
SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385342
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- South Street Auction Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385342
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- South Street Auction Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH 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:
- SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH 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 56733 32187
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 SOUTH STREET, Newport
684-1/5/308 (East side)
31/12/73 South Street Auction Rooms
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH STREET, Newport
(East side)
Sunday School)
GV II
School, now auction rooms. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered
front. Slated roof. 2 rooms wide, 1 room deep; room to left on
each floor considerably the larger.
2 storeys. 5-window range with a large unwindowed space
between the 2nd and 3rd windows from left. Roughly central in
ground storey is a square entrance porch with horizontal
channelling, the voussoirs marked out in the cement.
Round-arched doorway with 3-panelled double doors. Top
entablature with blocking course. Immediately in front of the
right-hand jamb is a large shoescraper. At either side is a
small added closet with rusticated quoins and top cornice; the
top of a former window is visible behind the right-hand
closet. At each end of the ground storey is a triple-sashed
window: 12 over 8 panes in centre, 3 over 2 panes at sides. To
right of the right-hand closet is a blocked doorway. Upper
storey has 4 windows with 6-paned sashes, blind window second
from right. At each end of the front a prominent rusticated
pilaster strip. Plain eaves-board.
INTERIOR: ground floor has plank dado. 6-panelled double-doors
between the rooms. Right-hand room has mid C19 chimneypiece in
rear wall; painted slate with bracketed shelf; cast-iron grate
with original basket, surround of coloured patterned tiles. In
right-hand rear corner of left room an L-shaped wooden
staircase with oblong section balusters. Upper-floor rooms
have moulded wood cornices. Exposed king-post-and-ridge roof
trusses.
Described in 1973 list as Sunday School dated 1841. No date
now visible. Reputed to have been a British National School.
Listing NGR: SS5673332187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485804
- 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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