37, Pilton Street

BARNSTAPLE

SS5534 PILTON STREET, Pilton 684-1/2/358 (West side) 19/01/51 No.37

GV II

House. Early C17 with later alterations. Formerly a single dwelling with No.36 (qv) adjoining to the S, but the 2 buildings are said to have been rented and treated separately until 1711 (Reed, p.149). Owned by the Pilton United Charities. Mass wall construction, rendered; slate roof, gabled at ends; brick end stacks. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide with a central passage taken out of the width of the left-hand room. Present staircase is C20, rear or left-hand room, but may be in position of original. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window range. All windows are 12-pane horned sashes. Front door to left of centre has 6 fielded panels, upper panels glazed, with sash adjacent to left. 2 ground-floor windows to right of front door, 2 first-floor windows. INTERIOR: ground-floor right has room with (incomplete) single rib ceiling. First floor has one old oak door-frame with a stud door and step down into first-floor left room which has a C17 plaster wall frieze. First-floor right has a coved ceiling and rib patterns on the walls. HISTORICAL NOTE: the earliest documentation for the house, mentioned by Reed, is in a Trust Deed of 1577 in which several Pilton charities were merged. From 1711 to 1845 it was rented out as one dwelling with No.36 (qv). (Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-: 149; Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Diver B: 1914-: 193).

Listing NGR: SS5567334069