Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 ALLHALLAND STREET
842-1/5/5 (West side)
19/03/73 Nos.4 AND 5
including building to rear of No 4
(Formerly Listed as:
ALLHALLAND STREET
(West side)
No.4)
(Formerly Listed as:
ALLHALLAND STREET
(West side)
No.5)

GV II

Pair of houses built as a single range. Early C19; No 5 is
remodelled mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Slate roofs. 2 large
chimneys on front and back slopes of party wall; mostly
rendered, but some exposed red brick on front chimney. Another
red brick chimney on left side
wall.
3 storeys with garret. Fronts of one-window range to No 4,
2-window range to No 5. Original shop-front including
house-door to No 4: projecting display window with rounded
corners, reeded sill and entablature, the latter continued
across 2 doorways to left, 6-panelled house-door, the 2 bottom
panels flush, flanked by reeded pilasters. Second-storey
window has 10-paned sashes; that in third storey has late C20
sashes with 4 over 8 panes.
No 5 has mid C19 shop front with original display windows
flanking shop door: 4-panelled house-door to left; above them
all an entablature with cornice on consoles. Upper storeys
have raised quoins and shaped window-surrounds; barred sashes
with 8 over 8 panes in second storey, 4 over 8 panes in third
storey.
Right side wall (visible from alley) has stair window with
15-paned sashes. Rear walls of both houses (visible from alley
and car park) have barred sashes.
Behind No 4 is a detached building, perhaps a former kitchen
block, linked to the main house by a low single-storeyed
outbuilding. No 5 clearly had a similar detached building
originally. Building behind No 4 is of stone rubble, rendered
at front and rear, with corrugated asbestos roof. INTERIOR not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4540626507

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496622

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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