105, High Street

This building, located at 105 High Street in Barnstaple, is a late 18th-century office building dating from the 1870s. The front is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and patterned tiles. It has a hipped, slated roof and three storeys plus a garret. The building is three windows wide. A late 20th-century shop window occupies the ground floor, extending upwards to the sills of the windows on the second floor. The second-floor windows are round-headed, with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds featuring fleur-de-lys finials and ballflower corbels, constructed from cream brick. A moulded string course connects the corbels, and horizontal stone bands are situated above and below them. These windows contain three-pane wood casements with transom lights, and much of the glass is old and has an irregular surface. A band of patterned tiles is located at the second-floor level. The third-storey windows also feature chamfered surrounds, but have flat heads rounded at the corners, with two-pane sashes and margin panes. Matching horizontal stone bands are present as on the second storey. A bracketed eaves cornice is visible. A half-hipped dormer window with a three-pane wood casement in a shaped opening is set in the roof. To the right, the brickwork is slightly set back over the entrance to Theatre Lane, with a curved stone lintel and hoodmould above the opening. The interior has not been inspected.