26 And 27, High Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS855332 HIGH STREET 684-1/8/133 (East side) 19/01/51 Nos.26 AND 27

GV II

House with later shop on the ground floor. c1860s, rear block, to which Nos 1 & 2 Butchers' Row (qv) are attached, may be earlier, contemporary with Butchers' Row (qv). Stuccoed; slate roofs (rear block with flat roof); rear stack has brick shaft and yellow chimney pot with scalloped cresting. On an important corner site between the High Street and Butchers' Row, with a canted corner. T-plan block with rear centre wing and block behind Butchers' Row in angle between rear wing and main block. 3 storeys. 1:3-window range to High Street; 2:4-window range to Butchers' Row. Deep projecting eaves cornice on moulded brackets; eaves band; platband at second-floor cill level; windows with moulded architraves; second-floor windows with moulded cill blocks. Shop front has a dentil cornice and plate-glass windows with panelled pilasters; C20 shopfront to right. First-floor windows glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes with margin panes, except left-hand bay, which is a tripartite sash with a more elaborate architrave and a floating cornice on consoles with a semicircular pediment over the centre. First-floor windows are one over one-pane sashes with margin panes, except to left bay, which is tripartite. Canted corner and 4 bays of Butchers' Row elevation have similar details and windows. To the left, slightly set back, a block with a 2-bay front to Butchers' Row has a second-floor platband and similar windows, the first-floor windows with keyblocks. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5580233230