84 High Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET 684-1/7/153 (West side) 31/08/88 No.84

GV II

House and shop. 1902. By FW Petter of Barnstaple. For Mr JT White, pianoforte dealer. Painted brick front with cement dressings. Slated roof, hipped at the front. Red brick chimney on right-hand side wall. 3 storeys. 3-window range. Late C20 shop front, except that the original fluted pilasters, surmounted by massive consoles, remain at each end. Upper-storey windows have eared architraves and cills supported by small brackets with a fringe of guttae. Taller 2nd-storey windows have friezes with triangular and segmental pediments. Front has rusticated cement quoins and a top entablature with dentilled cornice. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the previous building on this site, with much lower storey-levels, is shown in a photograph of 1886. (Barnstaple Castle Records: Plans Committee Minute Book, 11.12.1901: 1901-; North Devon Journal: l2.1.1902: 1902-: 2; North Devon Journal: 3.4.1902: 1902-: 8; North Devon Journal: 18.9.1902: 1902-: 3; Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PL 42).







Listing NGR: SS5577933222

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0023 IOE Records taken by Ann Allen; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project