Queen Annes Walk
QUEEN ANNES WALK, THE STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1385370
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Annes Walk
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN ANNES WALK, THE STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1385370
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Annes Walk
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN ANNES WALK, THE STRAND
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:
- QUEEN ANNES WALK, THE STRAND
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 55690 33110
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE THE STRAND
684-1/7/247 (South West side)
19/01/51 Queen Anne's Walk
GV I
Exchange, now provided with public seats. 1708 (dated statue),
possibly re-using earlier columns (Pevsner); roof probably
1859. Building has been attributed to William Talman
(Pevsner); restored 1986 by Herbert Read.
Cream freestone (probably Beerstone); hipped slate roof with
lead rolls.
Originally a single colonnade, facing the quay (inlet since
filled in). Building (separately listed) attached to rear of
colonnade in 1859, perhaps replacing something earlier.
10-bay colonnade, left return with blind wall, right return
open. Inside the colonnade 2 doorways and 2 into attached
building.
Single-storey. Sumptuously decorated. Fluted Tuscan columns,
paired at left and right ends, support an entablature with
pulminated frieze, parapet above, divided into rectangles with
carved armorial bearings and decorated with urns. 6th bay from
left broken forward with 2 pairs of fluted stone pillars
supporting a bracketed pedestal, carved with armorial bearings
and trophies, with a larger-than-lifesize statue of Queen Anne
holding an orb and sceptre. Plaque below statue records that
it was given by Robert Rolle of Stevenstone in 1708. Below
this structure is the Tome Stone (qv), placed here in 1909.
Inside colonnade rear wall decorated with plain pilasters.
Boarded roof to colonnade supported on c1859 cast-iron trusses
with roundel decoration.
HISTORICAL NOTE: an exceptional survival of Barnstaple's
flourishing mercantile history.
Listing NGR: SS5569033110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485832
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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