94, High Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS558331SE HIGH STREET 684-1/9/163 (West side) 22/06/81 No.94 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) Nos.94 AND 95)

GV II

House, now shop with offices above. Early C18, remodelled externally in mid C19; ground storey extended at rear in late C20. Solid rendered front. Roof not visible from street. First floor is 2 rooms wide and one room deep with chimney in centre. Passage at rear, reached from street by late C20 staircase at left-hand end. C18 stair compartment behind right-hand room. 3 storeys. 4-window range. Late C20 shop front and 6-panelled house door in ground storey. Windows in upper storey have eared architraves, those in 2nd storey with friezes and cornices, those in 3rd storey with bracketed cills; all have plain sashes. C20 'eaves cornice' composed of stepped boards. INTERIOR: first floor only inspected; second floor, seen in the 1970s, had no features of interest. Right-hand first-floor room has raised-and-fielded, one-fillet, ovolo-moulded panels; plain dado with moulded rail and skirting, now truncated, probably as a result of heightening the ground storey; boxed cornice. At either end of rear wall a 6-panelled door matching the wall panels; moulded architraves and panelled reveals. Panelled shutters and window-seat to match. Original ceiling with bolection-moulded ribs; round centre panel with 4 shaped spandrel-panels. Late C18 wood chimneypiece with panelled pilasters and entablature, all enriched and decorated with festoons; at either end of frieze a female draped figure, that to right with scales, that to left with lion; in centre a raised panel with oval flanked by festoons. Cast-iron grate, probably mid C19; round-arched enriched surround, turning outwards at the bottom, basket grate missing. Straight flight early C18 wooden staircase rising to second floor; carved step-ends, turned balusters, moulded handrail ramped up over a column-newel at the top. First-floor landing has boxed cornice; window with 6-paned sashes.

Listing NGR: SS5581233149