SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS

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
List Entry Name:: SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS
Statutory Address:: SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385342
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH STREET AUCTION ROOMS, SOUTH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 485804
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.