1-16, BUTCHERS ROW

BARNSTAPLE

SS558332 BUTCHERS' ROW 684-1/8/80 (South side) 19/01/51 Nos.1-16 (Consecutive)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.1 TO 33 BUTCHERS ROW. Originally 33 butchers' shops, now amalgamated to form 11 shops with a 12th at the back, opening on to Church Walk; only 4 of them still occupied by butchers. House built above W end, 1855. By RD Gould of Barnstaple. Bath stone, now painted; the house rendered. Hipped slated roofs; flat leaded canopies in front. The shops are arranged in 2 groups separated by the entrance to Church Walk. Each has a 10ft 10in frontage, is about 14ft high and has a 7ft canopy in front. Above W end is a 2-storeyed house. There was from the first another house at the E end; this is separately listed as No.96 Boutport Street (qv). The pavements under the canopies were originally entered through arches at each end, and there were matching arches on the N side. These were demolished in 1961. One storey, except for 2 additional storeys to house at W end. Designed in the form of an arcade with 17 arches in the right-hand range and 18 in that to left. The arches are segmental-headed with short vertical sides, and spring from square chamfered and stopped piers; arches have moulded archivolts and keystones which merge at the top into a raised band. Immediately above this is a moulded wooden canopy carried on arch-braced brackets. The shops have sash windows, most of them with a single upright glazing bar, and a plank door divided so that the short lower section can be shut while the upper part remains open. The 2 west arches contain late C20 display windows. The house above them is 2-window range, these having moulded architraves with keystones in the lower storey; 2-paned sashes with margin-panes, except for the left lower storey window, which has French window. Raised band between the storeys. Similar sash window with architrave in upper storey facing east. Side walls of the ranges facing Church Walk have similar arcading to the shops, except that the arches are round; moulding of canopy is carried round as an eaves cornice. 2 arches to east, 3 to west. All are blind except the southern arch on W side, which opens into a small shop: half-glazed double doors with flush lower panels. (Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-97: Barnstaple: 1897-: 49-50; Lamplugh L: Barnstaple, Town on the Taw: Chichester: 1983-: 122, 126, 148; Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: Bristol: 1980-: 146, 148-9).

Listing NGR: SS5583033240