Gates and Gate Piers and Lamp Standards Approximately 18 Metres South of South East Corner of Museum
GATES AND GATE PIERS AND LAMP STANDARDS APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF MUSEUM, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385359
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers and Lamp Standards Approximately 18 Metres South of South East Corner of Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AND LAMP STANDARDS APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF MUSEUM, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385359
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers and Lamp Standards Approximately 18 Metres South of South East Corner of Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AND LAMP STANDARDS APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF MUSEUM, THE SQUARE
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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:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AND LAMP STANDARDS APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF MUSEUM, THE SQUARE
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:
- SS5586432945
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5532 THE SQUARE
684-1/4/239 (South West side)
31/08/88 Gates, gate piers and lamp standards
approx 18m S of SE corner of Museum
(Formerly Listed as:
THE SQUARE
(West side)
Gtes, gtepiers and lmp stndrds..18m
south of SE corner of North Devon
Athenaeum)
GV II
Gates and gate piers, the latter carrying the bases of lamp
posts, at The Square entrance to forecurt of Museum of North
Devon. Probably mid C19. Piers are of limestone ashlar, oblong
in section with moulded caps; panels of red sandstone front
and back. Cast-iron lamp standards on granite plinths, the
former consisting of pairs of Dolphins entwined round the stem
of a flower; moulded inscription COALBROOKDALE front and back.
Iron gates decorated with spearheads, quarefoils and scrolls;
scissor-braces in lower part with bosses inscribed YOUNG & SON
1894. The forecourt railings at either side are late C20
replacements.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the original railings and tops of the lamp
posts are shown in J & J Baxter, `Barnstaple Yesterday', 1980,
plate 100. `Coalbrookdale' was the celebrated Coalbrookdale
Company, founded by Abraham Darby at Ironbridge, Shropshire,
in 1708. JD Young & Son were iron and brass founders in Silver
Street, Barnstaple.
(Bone M: Barnstaple's Industrial Archaeology: 1973-: 25; White
W: Directory of Devonshire: 1890-).
Listing NGR: SS5586432945
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 485821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bone, M, Barnstaple's Industrial Archaeology, (1973), 25
Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980)
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1890)
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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