10, Cross Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CROSS STREET 684-1/7/106 (North side) 31/08/88 No.10 (Formerly Listed as: (North side) No.10 Old Post Office)

GV II

Barnstaple Post Office (1902-84), now offices. Dated 1901 on dormer gable; probably by FW Petter of Barnstaple. Stone ashlar front; pale yellow brick at rear. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimney with bracketed cap on each side wall. Plan complex: double-depth front range with extensive rear buildings containing former writing and sorting rooms. 2 storeys with garret. 5-bay Italianate front with pilasters of Ionic and Corinthian orders separating the bays. In ground storey the bays contain round-arched openings, with moulded archivolts springing from square half-columns, each arch having an emphasized keystone. Centre and end bays now contain doorways; that in centre was originally a window, while the other 2 contained double panelled doors. All 3 windows had twisted iron columns, which still remain in the 2 surviving windows. Upper-storey windows are mullioned and transomed with moulded architraves; shaped sunk panels below. Top cornice surmounted by a balustrade, the latter interrupted in the middle by a large dormer gable with flanking pilasters buttressed by scrolls and supporting a curved pediment. At either side a wooden dormer window with steeply pitched triangular pediment. INTERIOR: (according to 1988 list description) had no features of interest except for a kitchen range in the right-hand (east) garret room at the front. An important house belonging to the Dodderidge family formerly occupied this site. Panelling and an overmantel of 1617 were preserved and are now in the Guildhall. (Barnstaple Castle Records, Plans Cmtee Min Book 1.6., 23.7.1901: 1901-; Lamplugh L: Barnstaple: 1983-: 134).

Listing NGR: SS5570933167