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Summary

Probable early 18th century house, remodelled and shop front inserted mid 19th century. Probably rick or timber-framing. Now offices. Upper storeys retain early features.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1385181: 99, HIGH STREET

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVIII to Modern - 1701 AD to 2013 AD (Between))

Full description

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

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

99 High Street.
House, now offices. Probably early C18, remodelled and shop front inserted mid C19. Rendered front, probably brick or timber-framing; thick rear wall to front block, probably stone. Slated roof, hipped to street. Late C19 red brick chimney on left side wall. Front range one room wide and 2 rooms deep; rear room subdivided and in 3rd storey has newel stair to roof space in left-hand section, possibly the position of the whole original staircase. Short rear wing in 2 builds to left. Front section has early/mid C19 staircase to right. Rear section extends across whole width of plot, creating a small courtyard/light-well behind front block. 3 storeys. 2-window range. Ground storey has well-preserved mid C19 shop front, probably the best of its date now surviving in Barnstaple. Consists of a pair of canted display window with recessed doorway between them; house door to right. Whole shop section flanked by panelled pilasters above which are ornate bracketed blocks decorated with lion-heads; entablature between them. Display windows have a single row of horizontal glazing bars, heads of lights have curved corners with sunk spandrels. Three-quarter-glazed double shop doors with solid moulded panels at the bottom. Upper-storey windows have moulded architraves with decorated top corners; plain sashes. Front flanked by raised quoins. Dentilled top cornice and parapet, the former broken by a triangular projecting clock; each of 2 faces has a triangular pediment with Gothic panelling in the centre, and a crenellated base.
Interior: ground-storey rooms wholly altered, except that entrance passage survives to right. Wood staircase with narrow open well rises from 2nd to 3rd storey; thin square balusters, column-newels with small turned pendants. Second-storey front room has early/mid C19 painted wood chimneypiece with moulded surround. Front wing room has moulded cornice, possibly early C18. Rear section of wing has roughly-chamfered ceiling beam, 8-paned sash-window to light well. 3rd-storey front room has early/mid C19 chimneypiece with painted wood surround; enriched iron basket grate. Stair to roof space has octagonal wood newel; room adjoining has early C18 two-panelled door with raised-and-fielded panels having one-fillet ovolo-mouldings. Roof of front block has heavy principal rafters, through-purlins and ridge; no evidence of collars. Front has been hipped back later and rough, straight windbraces added.

Sources / Further Reading

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