Number 29 Including Area Railings And Gates

TIVERTON

SS9512 BAMPTON STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/117 (East side) 14/12/72 No.29 including area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: BAMPTON STREET (East side) Nos.29, 31 AND 33, 35)

GV II

Probably originally commercial premises with accommodation or offices above. c1830s, now used as newspaper office and accommodation. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out; red brick stacks; slate roof; Cast-iron rain water goods. PLAN: paired with No.31 (qv). These are both corner buildings, fronting a court off Bampton Street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys high plus a basement at left return. Bampton Street elevation has a 2-bay front. Plain platband at first-floor level. Moulded eaves cornice. Recessed rounded corner. Office entrance on the corner with C20 shop front and fascia. Chanelled rustication to ground floor pilasters. Door to right leading to accommodation above has 4 fielded panels with overlight above. Four 12-pane hornless sash windows. Elevation to Bampton Street has 5-bay front with central window at ground-floor level with plain pilasters on either side indicating this may previously have been an entrance. 5 windows to ground and first floors, 4 to second floor, all 12-pane hornless sash windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement no longer has access down from exterior but retains square section cast-iron area railings and 3 gates with tulip and leaf finials.

Listing NGR: SS9560712695