14, HOLLAND WALK (See details for further address information)

This early to mid-19th century building comprises shops and storerooms, formerly a warehouse, and a house. It is located in Barnstaple, with a front to Tuly Street and a rear facing Holland Walk. The building is constructed of squared stone rubble with red brick window jambs, arches, quoins, and bandcourses, while the house section is covered in roughcast. The roof is slate, with red ridge tiles, hipped at the street corner. There is a small rendered chimney on the right-hand gable of the house.

The building has an L-shaped layout, incorporating a warehouse and an integral house; the warehouse section has a shop range at right angles to Holland Walk with its main front to Tuly Street, and the house sits on the east side, facing Holland Walk. The warehouse section is organised with one large room on each floor, with minor later sub-divisions, and features a single-flight staircase against the east wall. The house is one room wide and two rooms deep, with an entrance passage leading to a dogleg staircase on the left side.

The building is three storeys high. The Tuly Street front has a four-window range, while the Holland Walk front displays a loading bay (now infilled) to the left and a one-window-wide house to the right. The corner of the building is splayed and windowless. Inserted shop windows are present on the ground storey of the Tuly Street front, while the upper storeys retain original segmental-headed windows with raised bands at each level. The upper-floor windows have fixed sashes of 9 panes on the second storey and 6 panes on the third storey, with original iron glazing bars and decorative bosses at the intersections. The house section has similar bands but features flat-headed, 6-paned double-hung sashes. A 20th-century door is set below an original plain fanlight.

The interior of the former warehouse features plain, heavy, wooden upper-floor beams supported on the second storey by round iron columns with moulded caps and bases. Some boxed pillars on the ground storey may conceal similar columns. The wooden staircase has closed strings, thin square-section balusters (some of which are missing), and a rounded handrail. Visible are a high-quality king-post and ridge roof structure.

Inside the house, original doors, plaster cornices, and the staircase are well-preserved. The staircase is of wood with thin square-section balusters and a handrail ramped at each landing. Original 6-paned sashes are also present in the rear wall, along with a tall round-arched stair window with glazing bars and marginal quarter panes. The original fireplaces survive only on the second floor.