14, Cross Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House, shop.
14, Cross Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-spire-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 14, Cross Street, Barnstaple
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 331
- Coordinates
- 51.07935, -4.06094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14 Cross Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It features a front that dates from the early to mid 19th century, possibly added to an 18th-century house. The front wall is solid and rendered, topped with a slated roof and red ridge tiles. A large red brick chimney is located on the rear wall. The building stands three storeys high and has a two-window range.
On the ground floor, there is an early or mid 19th-century doorway on the right, flanked by Doric pilasters that support an entablature. To the left, there is a late 19th-century projecting shop window with canted sides, supported by iron columns with moulded caps and bases at the sides and corners, and a wooden entablature above. Below the cills of the second storey, there is a raised band. The upper storeys feature barred sashes set in recessed box-frames, with six panes per sash in the second storey and eight panes in the third storey. The building is finished with a bracketed eaves cornice.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this house was the birthplace of WNP Barbellion, also known as Bruce Cummings, who authored "Journal of a Disappointed Man" in 1919, which was reprinted in 1985.
Local climate
14, Cross Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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