30, High Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET 684-1/7/135 (East side) 31/12/73 No.30 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.30)

GV II

House, believed to have been an inn; now shop. Probably early/mid C17, the front part rebuilt in early C19. Solid rendered front; side walls of front part mostly of red brick. Roof not visible from street. One-room-wide plan; many of internal partitions removed, but appears to have been 4 rooms deep, the middle rooms lit through the right side wall. 3 storeys. 1-window range. Ground storey has late C20 shop front. Upper-storey windows triple-sashed and set in a single round-arched recess with moulded architrave and enriched bracket-like keystone. Windows have barred sashes: 6 over 6 panes in centre lights, 1 over 1 panes in side-lights; 3rd-storey window differs in that centre light is round-arched to make a Venetian window; all 3 lights have only one row of panes in upper sashes, that in the centre with the addition of a radial bar. Front finished with a prominent, open triangular pediment supported at each end with paired brackets. INTERIOR: ground storey of front 2 rooms wholly altered; rooms above disused at time of survey and largely stripped of plaster. Early C19 straight-flight wooden staircase in rear right-hand corner, rising from second to 3rd storey. In rear left-hand corner a reused piece of mid C17 panelling with small oblong panels having bolection-moulded surrounds. Rear 2 rooms have in ground storey 2 ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with plain raised stops; the front one has additional stops marking the position of a side passage to right. Third storey has C19 chimneypiece with iron basket-grate. Both sections have C19 roof timbers, but of different designs; that to rear has king-post trusses. A boldly articulated early C19 facade, one of the best of its date in the High Street.

Listing NGR: SS5579833275