11 And 11A, Boutport Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE BOUTPORT STREET 684-1/7/26 (East side) 19/01/51 Nos.11 AND 11A (Formerly Listed as: BOUTPORT STREET (East side) No.11 11 Boutport Street (East Side))

GV II

House, used partly as newspaper offices and partly as cottage. c1820. Stuccoed; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Double-depth plan: main range 2 rooms wide with central entrance into wide passageway containing the stair. Service wing, set back and adjoining at right end, is now in separate ownership (No.11A). 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front to main block. Cornice below parapet; left and right pilasters. Semicircular porch with parapet and round-headed windows; round-headed outer doorway with plain fanlight and 2-leaf panelled doors with fielded panels. Porch has inner door with glazed panels and C19 floor tiling. Ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and 8 over 12-pane sashes; first-floor windows have 16-pane outer sashes, 12-pane to centre, with moulded architraves and cill blocks. 3 hipped roof attic dormers. Rear elevation has double hung small-pane sashes, the first-floor windows with individual cast-iron balconies with lattice ironwork and a canted rear centre porch with a flat roof and door with arched fanlight. No.11A has plastic ground-floor windows and 12-pane sashes above. INTERIOR: partially inspected. Good staircase; original joinery includes reeded doorcases and window reveals; some chimneypieces survive including c1860s white marble chimneypiece in ground-floor front right, which has a ceiling rose.

Listing NGR: SS5583833503