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Summary

Double-fronted two storey house built in 1821, symmetrical three window front with central round-headed doorway. Interior retains some original features.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1385207: 17, LITCHDON STREET

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref: 485669

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Google, 2013, Google Streetview (Website). SDV350787.

House is two storeys not three.

Southwest Archaeology, 2013, Greater Barnstaple Area Project Database, BHBS Mapping Area 865 (Un-published). SDV351581.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

Formerly known as: Litchdon Terrace Litchdon Street. House, now offices. 1821, with minor alterations later in C19 and in 1925. Solid, rendered walls. Slated roof with low parapets on gable-ends; latter have red brick chimneys with projecting brick-course and moulded cap forming an entablature. Double-fronted. 2 rooms deep, with central entrance-passage leading to rear staircase. 3 storeys. 3-window range. Windows flat-headed with moulded architraves and cills; later sashes with horns, having 2 upright glazing bars forming margin-panes. Round-arched doorway recessed within a larger round arch having moulded architrave. 6-panelled door with knocker, flanked by pilasters; plain fanlight. Pilaster at each end of front, that on right shared with No.18 (qv). Moulded eaves cornice. Several barred sashes in rear wall. Interior: in 1985 had rooms with moulded cornices, some enriched, on ground floor. Original wooden chimneypiece in right-hand front room. Large segmental-arched opening (then blocked) with moulded architrave, between left-hand front and back rooms. Entrance lobby had ceiling with groined plaster vault, the latter with small flower in centre. Passage had moulded cornice and 2 doors with 6 ovolo-moulded panels. Staircase rebuilt in 1925 by Mr Thorne of Bear Street; turned balusters in early Georgian style with Jacobean turned newels. On left-hand side of back garden was an old cob wall, probably pre-dating the house. Historical note: in 1821 the Corporation leased the sites of Nos 17 & 18 (qv) to Nicholas Glass, who had 'erected and built 2 good and substantial dwelling houses on the premises …. On a certain plan and elevation approved of by them.' No.19 had been 'lately erected' by Philip Hodge of Barnstaple, builder, who may have built the whole terrace. The lease includes a plan of the house as existing (allowing for obvious alterations). The Corporation sold the freehold in 1925. Part of a formerly uniform terrace including Nos 18, 19 & 20 (qv). (Barnstaple Borough Records: Box 19/4; Title Deed).

Sources / Further Reading

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