Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET
842-1/5/23 (North side)
19/03/73 No.3

GV II

House with shop; possibley originally part of a larger house
including No 2. 1692, remodelled and separated from No 2 in
1806. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof with crested red
ridge-tiles. Heightened red brick chimney on left gable-end.
Shop with entrance-passage to right, leading to stair behind
shop; added room behind staircase.
2 storeys with garrets; 3-window range. Round-arched
house-doorway at right-hand end of ground storey; plain
flanking pilasters supporting entablature; 6-panelled door,
the 2 bottom panels flush, with matching reveals. To left a
segmental-headed window with plain sashes, then a mid C19 shop
front. Latter has 9 panes and is canted on the right towards a
recessed three-quarter-glazed door; flanking pilasters,
cornice with big bracketed block at either end.
Upper storey has box-framed sash-windows with 6 over 6 panes.
2 hipped dormers with crested red ridge-tiles; that to left
has 2-light wood casements with 4 panes per light and 2-paned
lights in the sides of the dormer; that to right has no front
window, but the same 2-paned side-windows. Rear wall has
window with 6-paned sashes having thick ovolo-moulded
glazing-bars. Modillioned boxed eaves-cornice.
INTERIOR: shop has dentilled box-cornice on rear and left
side-wall. Wooden staircase with one straight flight and
gallery-balustrade; probably reuses original stout turned
balusters, closed moulded string, flat, broad moulded
handrail, square newels with flat moulded caps. Dentilled
box-cornice on rear wall of stair compartment. Early C19 wood
staircase from first floor to garret, with thin square
balusters. Heavy roof-trusses.
(Notes by Bideford Historic Buildings Survey).

Listing NGR: SS4546426825

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482892

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