Warehouse Known As Old Slaughterhouse South South West Of Long Bridge

BARNSTAPLE

SS5532 STATION ROAD 684-1/4/7 Warehouse known as Old 19/04/85 Slaughterhouse SSW of Long Bridge, Lower Sticklepath (Formerly Listed as: BARNSTAPLE JUNCTION Lower Sticklepath Warehouse known as The Old Slaughterhouse immed. SSW of Long Bridge)

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Warehouse, once used as slaughterhouse and later converted to railway use. c1840 to 1846. Built for Sir Bourchier Wrey of Tawstock House. Coursed stone rubble with rusticated quoins and architraves to openings. Low pitched dry slate hipped roof with overhanging eaves. Lead rolls to hips and ridge. Long rectangular plan. 2 storeys. Widely-spaced 6-window range to NW front. Wide, almost square, rectangular window openings with rusticated stone jambs and flat arches with keystone. 3 loading doors at level between ground and first storeys in plain openings with segmental dressed stone arches. Similar openings on opposite SE side. Some of the window openings are blocked and some of the frames seem to be later insertions. The SW end has wide full-height doorway with rusticated stone jambs and with eaves above projecting to form a canopy. This opening is not shown on the 1846 or 1849 prints. The opposite NE end has ground storey opening with rusticated stone jambs and probably later timber lintel with relieving arch. The ground level has been raised a few feet around the building. Later floors inserted inside. The roof has queen-post trusses. The NW front is not depicted on the tithe map of 1840, but is illustrated in prints of 1846 and 1849. HISTORY: The warehouse known as The Old Slaughterhouse was formerly partially tenanted by Longbridge Motors.

Listing NGR: SS5569732794