Cemetery Lodge

Cemetery Lodge, built in 1856, was designed by Richard Davie Gould for the Barnstaple Burial Board. The lodge is constructed from snecked local stone rubble with bathstone dressings and features a slate roof with some surviving crested ridge tiles. It has stone stacks with ashlar quoins and is designed in a Tudor style. The lodge is L-shaped, facing Bear Street and located within the cemetery walls. There is a 20th-century bathroom addition at the rear where the two blocks meet.

The building has two storeys and a picturesque roofline with coped gables and stone copings on the chimney shafts. The stone mullioned windows have chamfered mullions, with most featuring transoms. The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a three-window range. The right side has a gabled section with a tall bellcote at the center and a gabled half-dormer to the left. The central entrance features a plank front door with large strap hinges set in a stone shouldered doorway with pyramid stops. To the left, there is a square three-light bay window with a hipped slate roof, and to the right of the front door, there is a canted bay window. The first floor has two-light windows, with a slit window below the bellcote. Other sides of the lodge retain some original windows.

The cemetery was established by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856, and Richard Davie Gould served as the town surveyor. This lodge is noted for being an unusually tall and ambitious example of the Tudor style for a cemetery chapel.