Arundel and Boundary Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Arundel and Boundary Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
carved-foundation-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Arundel and Boundary Wall and Gate Piers, Victoria Road, Barnstaple, EX32 9HP
OS grid reference
SS 564 327
Coordinates
51.0758, -4.05099
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of semi-detached houses, now combined into one property, were built in the mid-19th century. They were originally known as Arundel and Newliston. The houses have solid, rendered walls, likely of brick or stone, and slate roofs, except for the flat-roofed entrance porches. The main houses have hipped roofs, while the rear wings have hipped roofs facing inwards. A rendered chimney sits on the central ridge above the party wall, with rear wings featuring chimneys; the right-hand wing's chimney is of red brick, and the left-hand wing's is rendered.

The houses are arranged with mirrored plans, featuring entrance porches set back slightly at opposite ends. Small rear wings extend behind each porch, running parallel to the main house and projecting beyond the outer side wall of the porch. Each house is two storeys high with high semi-basements and has a two-window front, with an additional window in each porch and rear wing. A broad band sits above the semi-basement, and a moulded string course runs at first-floor level. The semi-basement windows are plain with sashes featuring two upright glazing bars. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads with vermiculated archivolts, keystones springing from moulded imposts supported by large brackets, and projecting cills on small brackets. These windows contain sashes with one horizontal glazing bar. The second-storey windows have moulded, eaved architraves, cills on small brackets, and six-paned sashes. A bracketed eaves cornice is present.

The entrance porches have three-panelled doors and door-heads that match the ground-storey windows, though the imposts for the door are supported by only two brackets, and a flight of steps leads up to them, flanked by low walls with a flat stone coping. The upper-storey windows have six-paned sashes. A top cornice is present on the right-hand porch, while the left-hand house features a parapet where the cornice had been removed.

Rear wings have mostly plain windows, although some have been altered; the second-storey windows retain projecting cills, and the ground-storey window of the right-hand house has a decorative iron window-box holder. The semi-basement of the left-hand wing features a six-panelled door, while the right-hand wing has a four-panelled door with a late 19th-century porch with turned wood columns and decorative iron brackets. Both wings have bracketed eaves cornices. Rear windows, visible from the passage leading to Barbican Road, have largely been altered, but the left-hand house appears to retain some barred sashes. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.

The gate piers at the front are constructed of ashlar stone with moulded caps. A boundary wall of stone rubble has shaped red brick coping. Victoria Road was created in 1853.

Local climate

Arundel and Boundary Wall and Gate Piers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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