27, CASTLE STREET
27, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385097
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 27, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385097
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 27, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, CASTLE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 27, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55704 33143
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE CASTLE STREET
684-1/7/89 (North East side)
31/08/88 No.27
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
(East side)
No.27
27 Castle Street (including No.12
Cross Street))
GV II
Sunday school, now used as offices. 1894. By Lindley C
Bridgman of Brayford. Cream-coloured brick with relieving
arches of blue brick; dressings of stone and patterned tiles.
Slated roof with pierced red ridge-tiles.
3 storeys with garret. 6-window Gothic-style front to Castle
Street, 3 windows to Cross Street. Ground and 2nd storeys
(except in the altered ground storey to Cross Street) have
windows with pointed or round arches, the heads of the
openings being filled with solid panels; the windows
themselves are flat-headed and divided into 2 lights by
columns with pink shafts (probably of sandstone) and foliated
limestone capitals. Third storey has small paired windows,
also with pointed arches, each window flanked by attached
columns matching those below. Cross Street front has a similar
window in the gable, but with a round light in the head of the
arch.
Castle Street front has a dormer gable, centrally placed, with
5 stepped, flat-headed openings containing louvres. Panel of
yellow patterned tiles in apex of gable. Return front to left,
facing N down Castle Street, is 3-window range with a 4th
window on the splayed corner. Window pattern is similar to
that in the other 2 fronts, except that in the 2nd storey the
lights have round arches; patterned glazing with coloured
glass. Doorway on corner has short attached columns and a
round arch, within which is a trefoiled fanlight. Above the
door is a stone plaque inscribed: THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE
BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
HISTORICAL NOTE: these were built as the Jubilee Schools
belonging to the Congregational Chapel in Cross Street. They
replaced a slightly smaller building designed in similar style
and for the same purpose by RD Gould in 1858. In 1905 the
schools had 16 teachers, 211 scholars and 164 members of bible
classes.
(Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-97: 1897-: 100; Baxter J &
Baxter J: Barnstaple Yesterday: 1980-: PLS 10, 13; Barnstaple
Castle Records, plans & committee minutes: 1891-; Harper's
Albums: 41).
Listing NGR: SS5570433143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baxter, J, J, , Barnstaple Yesterday, (1980)
Gardiner, W F, Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 100
Harper's Albums in Harper's Albums, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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