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IMPERIAL HOTEL

IMPERIAL HOTEL, TAW VALE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385348
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: IMPERIAL HOTEL
Statutory Address:: IMPERIAL HOTEL, TAW VALE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385348
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: IMPERIAL HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: IMPERIAL HOTEL, TAW VALE

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:: IMPERIAL HOTEL, TAW VALE

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 55973 32884

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5532 TAW VALE 684-1/4/229 (North East side) 31/12/73 Imperial Hotel (Formerly Listed as: TAW VALE PARADE Imperial Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Largely 1902 (Pevsner), incorporating a c1800 house at the W end. Smooth plastered; natural slate roof with lead rolls; stacks with red brick shafts with corbelled cornices. c1800 house is symmetrical, 2 rooms wide. The hotel has been built around this and to the E with a large entrance/stair hall to E of the house. 3 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 2:3:2:10-window range (2:3:2-window to the c1800 house). Deep eaves on moulded brackets; brick eaves course; moulded string at 2nd-floor cill level. Old house is symmetrical with Doric porch with moulded cornice with central roundel and 2-leaf small-pane glazed door. Ground-floor bay windows have rounded corners and are glazed with 4-pane horned sashes. The moulded string above was the cornice of the house before an extra storey was added with 3 similar sashes to the 2nd storey. The wing to the left has tall small-pane windows on the ground floor and 6 over one-pane sashes on the first floor and 4-pane sashes on the second floor. To right of the c1800 house a one-bay projection has a tall French roof with wrought-iron railings round the top. A 2-storey flat-roofed entrance block projects off this to the front with a 2-bay arcade on the ground floor and a third arch on the return with pilastered round-headed moulded arches with keyblocks. One opening is a door with plain fanlight, the other 2 are windows glazed with plate glass. The first floor of the entrance block is glazed with ribbon windows and crowned with decorative iron railings. The remainder of the hotel, 6 bays, has a canted corner and breaks forward to the right. Ground-floor windows are glazed with C20 timber 2-pane sashes, including 2 canted bays. First-floor balcony, probably 1902, on cast-iron brackets with frontal to match that on the entrance block. First-floor windows mostly French with high transoms, re-glazed with plastic windows, have cornices, some on consoles. Second-floor windows are 2 and 4-pane sashes. INTERIOR: large open-well timber stair to entrance hall with turned balusters. The c1800 house has been altered with ground-floor partition removed and 2 c1900 chimneypieces. HISTORICAL NOTE: a painting shows the c1800 house as 2-storey with projecting front wings. The building is an important feature of Taw Vale and the C19 riverside development close to the Long Bridge. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 159).

Listing NGR: SS5597332884

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 485810
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 159

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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.