Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET
842-1/5/125 (North side)
08/11/49 No.65

GV II

House, now offices. Late C18; the left rear wing possibly
earlier. Painted brick front and left side-wall on stone
ashlar bases; rendered at rear. Hipped slate roof with late
C19 crested red ridge-tiles. Chimney on each gable-wall, old
red brick to right, rendered to left. 4-square plan with
central passage to rear stair compartment, the rear rooms
projecting as short wings; the left rear room is a storey
lower than the rest, suggesting that it survives from an
earlier building on the site.
3 storeys with basement; left rear room 2-storeyed. 3-window
range, the outer windows wider than that in the centre.
Doorway in middle of ground storey approached by a flight of 5
old stone steps with original patterned iron guard-rails
sweeping outwards at the bottom; shoescraper to left;
6-panelled door with knocker, the 2 bottom panels flush, with
matching panelled reveals and cobweb fanlight; at either side,
fluted Doric pilasters supporting entablature with bracketed
cornice. Adjoining windows are canted bays with lean-to slated
roofs; 6-paned sashes, entablatures matching doorcase.
Upper-storey windows have slightly curved brick arches and
barred sashes; 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 in
third storey, the outer windows with side-sashes one pane
wide. Moulded board below the eaves.
INTERIOR: entrance-passage has plain dado with moulded rail
and skirting; panelled doors with raised moulding on the
panels. Open-well wooden staircase with shaped step-ends and
thin, scratch-moulded square balusters; handrail ramped up
over column-newels and voluted at foot of stair. Left
ground-floor front room has original wooden chimneypiece with
metal ornaments; simple white marble chimneypiece in room to
right. Barred sashes in rear wall, including tall,
round-arched stair window with cobweb glazing in the head.

Listing NGR: SS4525626614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496667

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability