Building Behind Queen Annes Walk (Over 60'S Club)
BUILDING BEHIND QUEEN ANNES WALK (OVER 60'S CLUB), THE STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385373
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Building Behind Queen Annes Walk (Over 60'S Club)
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING BEHIND QUEEN ANNES WALK (OVER 60'S CLUB), THE STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385373
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Building Behind Queen Annes Walk (Over 60'S Club)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING BEHIND QUEEN ANNES WALK (OVER 60'S CLUB), 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:
- BUILDING BEHIND QUEEN ANNES WALK (OVER 60'S CLUB), 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 55684 33118
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE THE STRAND
684-1/7/244 (South West side)
31/12/73 Building behind Queen Anne's Walk
(Over-60s' Club)
(Formerly Listed as:
THE STRAND
Building behind Queen Anne's Walk
(Masonic Hall on map))
GV II
Former public baths, converted to Masonic Hall in 1868, now
club. Said to be 1859, the date of the public baths, but some
brickwork looks earlier. Attached to NW side of Queen Anne's
Walk (qv). Flemish bond brick construction, the SW elevation
originally rendered, the NE elevation (to The Strand),
designed to continue the scale of Queen Anne's Walk (qv),
cement-rendered and blocked out.
Roughly rectangular block consisting of 2 parallel halls,
roofed on a NW/SE axis divided by an entrance passage from
offices on the NE side. Main entrance from Queen Anne's Walk
into passage between halls and offices, entrance to offices in
NE side from The Strand.
Single-storey. Asymmetrical 5-bay NE elevation (to The Strand)
continues line of cornice and parapet of Queen Anne's Walk,
centre 3 bays are broken forward with chamfered, rusticated
pilasters. Windows with Gibbs surrounds and segmental heads
with triple keyblocks. Doorway in right-hand of centre bays,
C20 timber windows.
SW side, facing the river is 6 bays divided by pilasters with
round-headed recesses with keyblocks, the 2 outer bays
fenestrated with C20 timber windows. The exposed brickwork is
heavily repaired and the original, particularly on the NW
return, might be pre-Victorian. Two C20 timber windows onto
Queen Anne's Walk.
INTERIOR: 2 attractive late Victorian/Edwardian halls. The SW
hall has walls divided by giant engaged columns with a large
cornice and coved, ribbed ceiling. End bays have square wall
pillars with coffered ceiling and round-headed niche at NW end
and flat ceiling at SE end. NE hall has c1900 3-bay roof with
flat ceiling above collars of A-frame trusses which are held
on moulded corbels; Adam-style frieze above moulded picture
rail.
Listing NGR: SS5568433118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485835
- 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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