1 And 2 Taw Vale Parade

Description

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

BARNSTAPLE

SS5532 TAW VALE PARADE 684-1/4/230 Nos.1 AND 2 19/01/51

GV II

Pair of houses. c1810-1830. Smooth-plastered mass wall construction; natural slate roof, hipped at ends with crested ridge-tiles; stacks with rendered brick shaft with platband and 8 old pots with toothed cresting. Italianate style. Pair of mirror plan double-depth houses, the main range, at the front, one room wide, heated from shared axial stack. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front with deep boxed eaves, the front elevation with a dentil cornice; platband at first-floor level; windows have external sliding sun shutters. Outer round-headed doorways with recessed inner arch, both with small-pane C20 glazed front doors and fanlights. Centre bay of the range has a round-headed niche and cill blocks and blind first-floor window with a moulded architrave and cill blocks.

Ground-floor windows glazed with tripartite horned sashes, 2-pane in the centre, No.1 retains outer 4-pane lights. 4 first-floor 12-pane hornless sashes. Right return of No.2 has a round-headed stair window facing Litchdon Lane. INTERIOR not inspected. Part of a group of fine C19 town houses on Taw Vale Parade.





Listing NGR: SS5596332857

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

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