40, GOLD STREET (See details for further address information)

TIVERTON

SS9512 GOLD STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/196 (North side) No.40

GV II

Includes: No.2 BARRINGTON STREET. Shop with accommodation above; house at rear, fronting Barrington Street, probably separate originally. Mid C19. MATERIALS: solid rendered walls; right side wall of No.2 Barrington Street is of painted brick. Tarred slated roofs that of No.40 hipped towards Barrington Street. 4 red brick chimneys. 1 chimney on left end wall of No.40, another to right of the ridge, adjoining the hip; both have tops rebuilt in later red brick. At right-hand end of the Barrington Street front of No.40, just above the eaves, and on right side wall of No.2, another 2 chimneys, wholly of later brick. EXTERIOR: No.40 is of 3 storeys with garret. 2-window fronts to Gold Street and Barrington Street, the corner rounded and recessed; raised band between second and third storeys. Ground storey has shop front, probably late C19, towards Gold Street, extending on to the rounded corner. Recessed, glazed shop door flanked by large display windows; these have Gothic shafts at the angles, supporting cusped brackets with rise to narrow ventilator grilles at the tops of the windows. Above the whole shop front is a tall entablature with bracketed architrave and dentilled cornice; at either end is a block with segmental pediment on top and carved bracket below. Upper storey windows, and single ground storey window towards Barrington Street, are flat headed with 2-paned sashes, each sash with a single upright glazing bar. Deeply projecting, moulded eaves cornice. 2-light segmental headed dormer window facing Gold Street; glazed small paned sides, 2-paned front sashes like those below. On the return front, above the ground storey, a shaped cast-iron plaque inscribed BARRINGTON ST. No.2 is 2-storey with a high semi-basement. 2-window front with doorway occupying the left bay of ground storey. Doorway and windows segmental headed. Door has 7 panels arranged in 4 rows, the second row from the bottom having a single wide panel. Windows have 2-paned sashes like those at No.40, except for small-paned windows of uncertain date in the semi-basement. Projecting, moulded eaves cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS9573612601