112-121, PILTON STREET

A terrace of ten houses on Pilton Street, Barnstaple, built in 1888, as indicated by a datestone. The houses are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a natural slate roof and brick stacks featuring yellow brick shafts with cogged cornices and old pots. The terrace is symmetrical, with numbers 118 and 119 in the centre being larger and incorporating paired doors. A concave curve is present at numbers 120 and 121. Numbers 122 and 123 are probably part of the same design but are detached and larger.

The terrace stands two storeys high and exhibits a higher level of architectural detail than typically found in a development of this scale. There are 20 windows in total, two to each house. Moulded brick eaves brackets are visible, and a roughcast platband is interrupted by the sills of the first-floor windows. Each house features a doorcase with a keyblock within a segmental-headed hoodmould. Most front doors have been renewed, although number 120 retains a plank door which may be original and contains a fanlight with spoke glazing. Ground-floor windows have segmental-headed arches with keyblocks held within square-headed hoodmoulds featuring carved corbels. These windows are fitted with 2-pane sashes and margin panes. First-floor windows similarly glazed and incorporate moulded stone lintels.

Numbers 118 and 119 are designed as a pair, with a coped gable in the centre displaying the date 1888 above now-headed, louvred openings. The front doors are joined together, set within coped gables on shallow, corbelled projections and featuring triangular overlights. The ground floor windows match those of the rest of the terrace. The roughcast platband includes grisaille ornament. A string course rises to meet corbelled hoods over the first-floor windows, which are fitted with 2-pane sashes with margin panes.

The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of interest. This terrace is characteristic of late 19th-century Barnstaple architecture, situated within an important conservation area and exhibiting more external decoration than expected, along with a symmetrical design that echoes some early 19th-century terraces in the town. The group value context of the terrace is noted.