9-12, HIGH STREET

BARNSTAPLE

SS558331 HIGH STREET 684-1/9/123 (East side) 31/12/73 Nos.9-12 (Consecutive)

GV II

Shops and bank with accommodation and/or offices over. c1865-75. High Street elevation stuccoed. Church Lane elevation Flemish bond yellow brick; slate roof; stacks not visible from street. Italianate style. Deep plan on a corner site between Church Lane and High Street. 3 storeys. 7-bay elevation to High Street plus corner bay, bowed to ground and first floor but canted to second floor. Rusticated, chamfered quoins; enriched eaves treatment with cresting and an elaborate corbelled cornice with modillions and a dentil frieze above an eaves band. Treatment of ground floor varies, architectural detail well preserved above. Late C19 or early C20 shop front to No.12 with a deep cornice above the fascia and consoles to the bowed corner bay and canted plate-glass windows with moulded standards to the High Street. The bank has a probably early C20 front with 2 composite sandstone columns and a rusticated doorway to the right with a projecting cornice above the fascia. No.9 has a late C20 shopfront. Tall first-floor 12-pane sashes (some horned replacements) have eared, shouldered architraves and alternating semicircular and triangular pediments. Tripartite, pilastered bow window to corner bay with moulded cornice and cill. Second-floor windows have eared architraves and corbelled cills and are glazed with 3 over 6-pane sashes. Flat-roofed dormers. The left return, to Church Lane, has one over one-pane sashes arranged in pairs and threes. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. This building occupies a prominent corner site in the High Street

Listing NGR: SS5584633137