75, Boutport Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS558331SE BOUTPORT STREET 684-1/9/52 (West side) 31/12/73 No.75 (Formerly Listed as: BOUTPORT STREET (West side) No.75 Barnstaple and North Devon Dispensary)

GV II

Barnstaple and North Devon Dispensary, now shop with accommodation over. 1833. Solid rendered front. Roof not visible from street. 3 storeys with semi-basement. 3-window range; 4th window in recessed section over cart-entrance to right. Ground storey has horizontal channelling to rustication. Deeply-recessed 6-panelled centre door, the top 4 panels now glazed. At either side a square, wooden late C19 bay window with top entablature; 12 panes at the front, 4 at both sides. Upper-storey windows flanked and separated by giant Doric pilasters, these standing on a raised band at first-floor level and supporting an entablature. Raised band at 2nd-floor level, linking the pilasters. Window pattern is of barred sashes, 6 over 6 panes in 2nd storey, 3 over 6 panes in 3rd storey. However, the 2 left-hand 2nd-storey windows have been altered to become fixed sashes with an opening section, as has the left-hand window in the 3rd storey. In the right-hand 3rd-storey window the top sash has lost its glazing bars. Right side wall has a single window with 4-paned sashes in ground storey. Cart entrance has segmental arch with raised bands above it at first and 2nd-floor levels. C20 two-light wood casement window in 2nd storey. 6-paned sash window in 3rd storey. Top entablature. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lamplugh L: Barnstaple: 1983-: 121).

Listing NGR: SS5589733114