Chichester Arms Public House

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533 PILTON STREET, Pilton 684-1/6/351 (West side) 31/12/73 No.28 Chichester Arms Public House

GV II

Formerly known as: No.28 Chichester Arms Inn, No.28 Pilton Street PILTON Pilton. Public house. Late C17 or earlier, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks not visible from front elevation. Interior on ground floor very altered with axial partition between front and rear rooms largely removed; appears to have been 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range. Eaves band with anthemion frieze in relief; eaves cornice with moulded brackets. Ground floor has panelled door to left of centre with flat porch hood with cornice. Ground-floor window left is a canted bay glazed with high transomed casements. 2 windows to right of the door are 2-light high transomed casements. 4 first floor 2-pane sashes without horns. INTERIOR: ground floor only inspected. Ground-floor front right room (some walls removed) has an ovolo-moulded late C17 fireplace and a chamfered cross beam with step stops. Other features of interest may survive elsewhere in the house. Reed (p137) records that this was a fully licensed house as early as 1837. (Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and People: Ilfracombe: 1985-: 137).

Listing NGR: SS5567334002