36, Boutport Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS558332SE BOUTPORT STREET 684-1/8/34 (East side) 31/08/88 No.36

GV II

Shop. 1905. Cream-coloured brick with stone dressings, the ground storey painted. Rear of building is rendered. Slated roofs; the street range is hipped, with flat top having tall, ornate guard-rail. Cream-coloured brick chimney in each side wall. Several red brick chimneys at rear. Deep, narrow fronted building with lower, but not necessarily later, ranges at the rear. 4 storeys and garret. 3-bay front in a version of the Flemish Renaissance style, with brick pilasters flanking and separating the bays. Entablature with stone architrave and cornice above each storey. Ground storey has late C20 shop front. In upper storeys the windows, one to each bay, are round-arched with moulded stone imposts and archivolts, and plain keystones. In the wider middle bay the second and 3rd storeys have a canted oriel window with the remnant of a pediment on top. In 4th storey above this is a wide window occupying the whole bay; within it a mullioned-and-transomed wooden window, the lower middle light with broken triangular pediment on brackets. The centre bay is continued above eaves-level as a large, 2-light dormer gable; this has scroll buttresses at either side and a triangular pediment on top with carved tympanum and finial. (Baxter J & Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PLS 140, 141).

Listing NGR: SS5593933268