1, UNION PLACE
1, UNION PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385383
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 1, UNION PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, UNION PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385383
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 1, UNION PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, UNION PLACE
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:
- 1, UNION PLACE
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:
- SS5619732720
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 UNION PLACE
684-1/5/255 (East side)
31/08/88 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
UNION PLACE
(East side)
No.1
(Drake House))
GV II
House, now hotel, incorporated with No.2 (qv). Early C19,
apparently with a slightly later extension on right-hand side.
Solid, rendered walls probably of stone or brick. Slated roof
with catslide at rear; red ridge-tiles. Double-fronted,
double-depth plan.
2 storeys. 3-window range, with a further window in extension
to right. Main building has sash windows, those at each end of
8 panes, except for the lower ground-storey sashes which have
12 panes; middle window of upper storey has 6-paned sashes.
Round-arched doorway in centre of ground storey; 6-panelled
door with knocker, fanlight with radial glazing bars.
Extension to right is set back slightly. Projecting, canted
bay window, probably a later insertion, in upper storey;
sashes, the middle ones 2-paned. Late C20 porch to hotel.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This house, together with No.2 Union Place (qv), has group
value both with Nos 1-6 Union Terrace (qv), Taw Vale, to the
south-west, and Holy Trinity Church (qv) to the north-east.
Listing NGR: SS5619732720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485845
- 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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