Barnstaple Town Station Including Railings And Gates At North End

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CASTLE STREET 684-1/7/90 (South West side) 31/08/88 Barnstaple Town Station including railings and gates at north end (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (West side) Old Town Station)

GV II

Railway station, now restaurant. c1898. For the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, which closed in 1935. Squared and coursed stone rubble with window and door surrounds, quoins, copings and chimneys of dressed limestone. Slated roof with red ridge-tiles, the gables, including those of the taller central section, having high parapets, with kneelers. Chimney on each gable of centre section; 2 on ridge of right-hand section, one on ridge of left-hand section. Long rectangular plan, one room deep. Single storey. Front to Castle Street is 12-window range, with 2 doorways, designed in a simple Tudor style. Windows are flat-headed with chamfered surrounds; window frames are wooden casements with glazing bars. Slightly projecting, chamfered plinth. Taller middle section, set forward a little, has wide central doorway with a pair of windows at either side. Doorway has half-glazed double doors and is approached by a flight of 6 wide stone steps with rounded corners. A pair of stone corbels at either side, originally probably supporting a canopy. Platform side has original wooden canopy on iron trusses; these are supported by with decorated brackets. Original iron railings and gates to approach at right-hand (N) end of building. INTERIOR wholly altered. (Bone M: Barnstaple's Industrial Archaeology: Exeter: 1973-: 14).

Listing NGR: SS5555433211