THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE

THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385362
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE, THE SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385362
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE, THE SQUARE

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

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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:: THE GOLDEN LION TAP PUBLIC HOUSE, 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:: SS 55901 33038

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE THE SQUARE 684-1/7/240 (North side) 31/12/73 The Golden Lion Tap Public House (Formerly Listed as: THE SQUARE (North side) Mugford's Spirit Vaults)

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Inn, now public house and restaurant. Early/mid C17 building remodelled and enlarged in early/mid C18 and later; interior seems to include some imitation C17 work. Solid rendered front with red brick gable set well back. Rear wall of front block is of painted stone rubble; front wall of back block is of painted brick with patches of stone rubble. Added rear range to right is of red brick. Front block now appears to have flat roof; back block has steeply-pitched slated roof at right-angles to The Square. Parallel to it on right is the tiled roof of the added range; in front of latter the room over carriage-entrance is similarly tiled. Red brick chimneys. PLAN: front block has central through-passage with a room at either side; small projecting stair turret at rear of right-hand room. Behind this is a small courtyard (now glazed over) with a one-room-deep back block behind. Linking the 2 blocks on the left side of the courtyard is a gallery in the Devon urban tradition, although it is wide enough to qualify as a small room. There seems to have been a second courtyard behind the back block. To right of the building is a covered former carriage entrance with arcaded openings at either side; at the rear this appears to run under the added brick range roofed at right-angles to The Square. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, possibly with a 3rd storey over the back block. Front 4-window range with a 5th window to right, set back over the carriage entrance. Centre doorway with moulded architrave and flat moulded hood on shaped brackets; 3-panelled door, the large single panel at the bottom flush. At either side a flat-roofed canted bay window of 5 lights; plain wood-framed lower lights with 6-paned sashes (all with horns) in recessed box-frames; the larger left-hand window has 2-paned side-lights. Front finished with parapet having a plain coping, probably of concrete. Carriage-arch to right has plank door in a plain wood frame. Above it is a 3-light bow window with top entablature; sash windows with 6-panes in centre light, 2 panes in side lights. Gable of back block, clearly visible from opposite side of The Square, has tall round-arched window (now partly infilled) with BILLIARD inscribed in black and white lettering on the arch. Added rear range (visible from Diamond Street) has round-arched windows with what appear to be later mullioned and transomed wood casements. INTERIOR: rear of through-passage has mutilated early/mid C17 wood door-frame; square head, ovolo and hollow mouldings, large urn stops. Inside it a C18 round wooden arch with panelled spandrels. Room to right has old, plain ceiling beams, room to left has moulded plaster cornices round most of walls and ceiling beam. Right-hand upper-storey room has gable fireplace with C18/C19 moulded wood architrave; round-arched cast-iron basket grate. In rear wall, round-arched upper storey window with 4-paned sashes. Back block has at left-hand end of front wall one light of a C16/C17 wood-mullioned window with flat-splay mullions and wood glazing bar. Right-hand ground storey gable wall has fireplace with chamfered wood lintel. Carriage entrance to right has 3 large round arches with plain imposts to left (that in middle apparently a dummy backing on to back block); one to right, with the surviving impost of another. Room in added range above has large fireplace with wooden architrave, probably C18.

Listing NGR: SS5590133038

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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.