Birmingham Midshires Building Society / Bale's Garage

Description

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

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE THE SQUARE 684-1/7/235 (North side) 31/12/73 Birmingham Midshires Building Society (Formerly Listed as: THE SQUARE (North side) Bale's Garage)

GV II

House, now offices. Probably early or mid C18, slightly altered in early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Steeply pitched hipped slated roof. Plan appears to be L-shaped, with 1-room-deep ranges facing S and W. An old photograph shows the door in the middle of S front. 3 storeys with garret. Each of the 2 fronts is 3-window range.

Ground storey wholly altered with late C20 display windows. Upper-storey windows have 6-paned sashes in box-frames; centre windows in each front are blind. Front facing S has full-height flanking pilasters. Bracketed eaves cornice on both fronts, continued on return front to right; latter has a blind window in each storey. Hipped dormer with 2-paned sashes and boxed eaves cornice, facing south; a late C20 dormer on the hip at either end. INTERIOR inspected only on ground floor. This has been wholly altered in late C20; upper floors also said to be altered. Included for group value.







Listing NGR: SS5591133018

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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

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project