98-104, NEWPORT ROAD

This is a terrace of seven houses on Newport Road in Barnstaple, built from 1834 onwards. The houses have solid rendered walls and slate roofs. Chimneys between numbers 98 and 103 are mostly rendered, but those at numbers 98 and 99, and a portion of the chimney at numbers 99 and 100, are made of old red brick. A more recent red brick chimney is located on the right-end wall of number 104.

The houses are two storeys high with garrets, likely added later, to numbers 99, 101, 102, and 104. They also have basements. Number 98 has a three-window front with a central doorway; numbers 99 and 100 have a three-window front with doorways to the right; numbers 101 and 102 have a two-window front with a doorway to the right; number 103 has a three-window front with a central doorway, and number 104 has a two-window front with a doorway to the left. The terrace presents a largely uniform design.

The doorways have bead-moulded, round arches, flanked by pilasters supporting a triglyphed entablature with a modillioned cornice. The original doors are six-panelled with central bead-moulding. At numbers 100, 102, and 104, the top four panels have been replaced with leaded coloured glass, and number 99 has a glazed door installed in the mid-to-late 20th century. A raised band runs above the ground storey, though it has been removed from the right-hand end of number 104. Number 98 features flanking giant panelled pilasters, which may be a later addition.

Most windows retain their original barred sashes: 8 over 12 panes are common on the ground floor, with 8 over 8 panes above, except above the doorways, which have 6 over 6 panes. Ground-floor windows at number 103 have been altered; the left window's lower sash now has a single upright glazing bar, and both ground-floor windows have had their sashes replaced with single sheets of glass. Number 104 has a mid-19th-century canted bay window with rounded corners, 2-paned sashes with a horizontal glazing bar, and a bracketed top cornice with fluting between the brackets.

A stepped board runs below the eaves, except at number 103, which now has a plain board. Rainwater heads decorated with a floral design are original to numbers 99 and 100. Number 99 has a small, flat-topped dormer with plain wood casements. Number 102 features a late-19th-century dormer with glazed sides and a cambered top, 2-paned sashes, and a shaped eaves-board. Number 104 has a 20th-century flat-topped dormer with metal casements. The interiors have not been inspected. Previously named Nos. 1 to 7 Nelson Terrace until the 20th century.