2, UNION PLACE
2, UNION PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385384
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 2, UNION PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, UNION PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385384
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 2, UNION PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 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:
- 2, 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:
- SS5621032729
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 UNION PLACE
684-1/5/256 (East side)
31/08/88 No.2
(Formerly Listed as:
UNION PLACE
No.2
(Fortescue House))
GV II
House, now hotel incorporated with No.1 (qv). Early C19, with
later addition on right-hand side. Rendered, solid walls,
probably of stone or brick. Slated roof with red-ridge tiles.
Probably a double-depth plan with stair in centre of rear
section; unusual in having entrance through left-hand gable
wall.
2 storeys. 3-window range to garden. Outer windows in each
storey have 8-paned sashes, except for the lower ground-storey
sashes which have 12 panes. In centre of ground storey is a
tall, round-headed niche; 6-pane sashes above. Side wall to
left (visible from New Road) has round-arched doorway. Above
it, in gable, a small casement window with pointed arch;
window is mullioned and transomed, each of the 2 lights with
its own pointed arch. To right in each storey a plain sash
window.
Right-hand side wall has gable window with pointed arch and
glazing matching that in the left-hand side wall. Rear wall
has small-paned sashes including the tall stair 12-pane window
in centre. Both rear and right-hand side walls are visible
from Holy Trinity churchyard.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This house, together with No 1 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: SS5621032729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485846
- 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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