Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon is a neighborhood museum overlaying the history and culture of the North Devon area and that's positioned in The Square in Barnstaple in Devon. The displays range from prehistoric instances to the Victorian generation. The building and its lawn railings beside the river front had been Grade II listed because 1988. The structure was built in 1872 for William Thorne, but sold to the Barnstaple Bridge Trust in 1876 who then sold it to William Frederick Rock. Constructed in purple brick with dressings of stone and terracotta, the hipped and slated roof has a flat valuable segment which is about with ornamental iron railings together with 5 red brick chimneys with stone caps.

The building is square and is built round an inner courtyard with on the proper on the building's North facet a small provider wing which might also simply be a former educate-house with a walled courtyard behind. Inside is a satisfactory timber staircase inside the Jacobean style with twisted balusters and huge carved newels with a Gothic stone fireplace within the entrance corridor. Behind the constructing at the river the front there is a small garden enclosed by using iron railings having spearhead uprights and standards; these railings shape a part of the listed repute for the assets. The gate piers and gates with the bases of dolphin lamp posts adjoining to the building are one after the other listed.