West View
WEST VIEW, THE STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385374
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West View
- Statutory Address:
- WEST VIEW, THE STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385374
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West View
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST VIEW, THE STRAND
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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.
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:
- WEST VIEW, 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 55750 33109
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533 THE STRAND
684-1/7/249 (North East side)
31/08/88 West View
GV II
House and shop. Probably C17 or earlier; possibly enlarged in
C18. Solid, roughcast walls, apparently of stone rubble. Roof
of front range slated; rear ranges pantiled. No chimney
visible from street. Plan consists of 3 single-depth ranges,
interior arrangmement considerably altered.
2 storeys. 1-window range, remodelled late C19 or early C20.
Shop windows in ground storey; canted bay window, off-centre
to right, in upper storey. Right-hand side wall (exposed to
side passage) has early or mid C19 sashes in middle range; an
8-paned sash in ground storey, 2 sashes with 4 full panes and
marginal quarter panes in upper storey.
INTERIOR: has few exposed features in ground storey: a heavy,
plain upper-floor beam in rear room, a fireplace with C19
marble surround and coloured patterned tiles in right-hand
rear corner of middle range. Upper floor and roof structure
not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: old photographs show a chimney on right-hand
gable of front range. Front had 2 ordinary sash windows in
upper storey. Owner says his title deeds, dating back to
Charles II, describe the building as a former Customs House,
although John Wood's map of 1843 shows that a building a
little further south was then used for this purpose.
The modest scale of this building in a part of town much
rebuilt in C18 and C19, and the great thickness of the walls
separating the ranges, suggests that this is a building of C17
or earlier. It is likely to have features of interest
concealed under plaster, and possibly an early roof structure.
(Wood J: Map of Barnstaple: 1843-).
Listing NGR: SS5575033109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Title: Map of Barnstaple
Source Date: 1843
Author:
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Surveyor:
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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