3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385350
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
- Statutory Address:
- 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385350
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
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:
- 3-11, TAW VALE PARADE
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 55988 32825
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5532 TAW VALE PARADE
684-1/4/231 Nos.3-11 (Consecutive)
19/01/51
GV II
Terrace, originally of 10 houses (old list description), now
mostly used as offices, restaurants etc. Probably 1840s, when
Taw Vale was developed. Smooth-plastered mass wall
construction; natural slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts
with some old pots.
Centre 4 houses 3-storey, flanked by 3-storey-and-attic houses
with lower rooflines and basements. Symmetrical 7:8:7-window
range. Centre block has moulded eaves brackets and an eaves
band; outer houses have cornices below parapets and mansard
roofs. Ground floor with channelled rustication with moulded
string at first-floor level. Round-headed doorways to outer
blocks and round-headed windows, mostly glazed with plate
glass sashes. First-floor windows have moulded architraves,
some retaining probably original 12-pane sashes, some reglazed
with later timber sashes.
The middle block is more ornate with an anthemion balcony on
iron brackets to the first floor and high-transomed French
windows with cornices on consoles; second floor 12-pane
sashes. The right-hand house of the right-hand block has a
c1860s' cast-iron balcony.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
This terrace makes an important contribution to a fine group
of C19 town houses on Taw Vale Parade.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Cherry B: Devon: London:
1989-: 159).
Listing NGR: SS5598832825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 159
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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