27, Pilton Street

This is a late 16th or 17th century house in Barnstaple, which was remodelled in the 18th and early 19th centuries and is now subdivided, partly serving as a restaurant. The front is rendered, with a slated roof and an old red brick chimney located at the centre of the ridge. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window front. A wide doorway is positioned in the second ground-floor bay from the right, incorporating double doors made of two panels: the lower panels are flush. To the right of the doorway is a box-framed sash window with two upright glazing bars per sash. A canted bay window with a moulded top cornice is at the left-hand end, with a doorway featuring a similar cornice, which may have originally belonged to a matching bay window. The upper-storey windows have box-framed sashes with six panes per sash, and the top sashes are curved. Raised quoins are present at each end of the front elevation, and there is a moulded eaves cornice. The restaurant located in the left ground-floor front room features three chamfered ceiling beams, one displaying a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. A rear wing contains a staircase with late 19th century turned balusters.