6, Cross Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CROSS STREET 684-1/7/102 (North side) 19/01/51 No.6

GV II

House and shop. Early C16, considerably rebuilt in C19; C20 addition at rear. Painted brick front with stone dressings; rear wall, and probably much of side walls of stone rubble. Hipped slated roof. Late C19 or early C20 red brick chimney on One-room wide, 2-rooms deep plan with rear closet wing projecting on right-hand side. Staircases between front and back rooms and at front end of closet wing. 3 storeys. 2-window range of mid or late C19. Ground storey has C20 shop front with fluted pilasters. Second storey has segmental-headed windows with hoodmoulds; 3rd-storey windows have flat heads with rounded top corners. All have 2-pane sashes with marginal quarter-panes. Wooden eaves cornice with gutter decorated with lion heads. INTERIOR: ground floor combined into a single shop and extended backwards. Former rear room (probably the hall) has C16 limestone fireplace and piscina in left-hand side wall. Fireplace has Tudor arch, quarter-round and hollow mouldings with no visible stops; lower part of fire back is of slates on edge, laid in herringbone pattern. Chimneybreast is of stone rubble and incorporates a relieving arch. Piscina (a rare feature probably made for the house) has a 2-centred, trefoiled and cusped head with 3-leaf decoration in the spandrels; ogee and hollow mouldings with an elaborate stop surviving at the foot of the left side. Base, which contains a basin and drain outlet, is carved with 4-leaf decoration along the front. Both staircases are of wood, early or mid C19 with thin, square-section balusters. First-floor fireplaces, doors and cornices are of similar date; marble chimneypiece in front room, wooden one with attached columns in rear room. Early or mid C18 door on each of ground and second floors. C19 king-post-and-ridge roof structure. Several old barred sashes in rear wall. Although the house has been much rebuilt, early features may still survive concealed in the side wall and possibly in the floor structures. At the rear is a former warehouse (not included). (Transactions of Devonshire Association: Everett AW: Domestic Piscinas in Devon: 1958-: 127-8, PL 10.99).

Listing NGR: SS5573333202