Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5534 PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/2/357 (West side)
19/01/51 No.36

GV II*

House, early C17 with early C18 refurbishment. Formerly a
single dwelling with No.37 (qv) adjoining to the N, 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, front elevation roughcast, rear
elevation partly slate-hung; left end and rear stack with
brick shafts; cast-iron rainwater goods.
L-plan. Front block 2 rooms wide with a cross passage:
principal heated room to left of passage. 2 unheated service
rooms to right, one behind the other, framed stair to rear of
service rooms. Rear left wing gives another large heated room,
presumably the kitchen.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window range with moulded eaves
brackets. Fine C17 ovolo-moulded, stopped door frame to right
of centre: front door with 6 fielded panels. 3 ground-floor
C18 or C19 16-pane sash windows, 3 first-floor 12-pane sash
windows. Rear wing has one ground- and one first-floor 5-light
C17 casement, the mullions chamfered on the inside and
ovolo-moulded on the exterior. C17 door frame to rear of
passage with C17 door with cover strips.
INTERIOR: remarkably complete with a wealth of historic
features. Passage flanked by (painted) oak plank-and-muntin
screens with scroll stops; C17 doorways into all ground-floor
rooms. Ground floor front right has complete single rib
ceiling, enriched with sprays, original stair has turned
balusters and newel posts. First floor has set of C17
ovolo-moulded door-frames into upper rooms. First-floor
right-hand room has a C17 decorated plaster frieze, left-hand
room has an early C18 eared chimneypiece with a triglyph
frieze.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the earliest documentation for the house,
mentioned by Reed (p70), is in a Trust Deed of 1577 in which
several Pilton charities were merged. It was rented to a
succession of wealthy clothiers. From 1711 to 1845 it was
rented out as one dwelling with No.37 (qv).
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
149).

Listing NGR: SS5567334060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533084

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)