Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET 842-1/5/34 (North side) Nos.13A, 14 AND 14A

GV II

Range of shops and offices occupying an important site on the rounded corner of Mill Street. c1890. Rendered solid walls. Slated roofs with red ridge-tiles. 2 cream-brick chimneys on ridge, with projecting red-brick courses at top forming entablatures. Classical style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. Front divided by pilasters into bays of 2, 2, 1, and 3 windows respectively. Ground storey contains 4 shop fronts, 3 of them probably original; the fourth, in third bay from right, is late C20. Simple design, with large display windows and glazed doors; entablatures with modillioned cornices. No 13A has entrance on splayed corner, flanked by fluted cast-iron columns; entablature covered by late C20 boarding. 3 doors leading to upper floors, that at No 14 original with 6 moulded panels. Second-storey windows round-arched, 4 of them developed into Venetian windows; all have hood-moulds, continued across each bay from pilaster to pilaster. Third-storey windows have flat shaped surrounds and moulded sills, the latter continued across the whole front and over the pilasters. Modillioned eaves-cornice. INTERIORS not inspected, but No 14 has an original half-glazed inner door with margin-panes; tall matching fanlight. (Grant A: The Book of Bideford (photo of previous building on site): 1987-: P.56).

Listing NGR: SS4532426815

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