Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BUTTGARDEN STREET 842-1/6/61 (West side) Nos.13 AND 13A

GV II

House, now sub-divided. Probably early C18, remodelled early or mid C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof, continued across from Nos 11-12 (q.v.). Old red-brick chimney on left side-wall; 3 tall, tapered round pots. 2 storeys with garret; 3-window range with doorway in middle bay of ground storey; front slightly asymmetrical, the doorway not exactly below the middle window above. 6-panelled door, the 2 lowest panels flush, the top 2 panels now glazed; old knocker. Fanlight with radial bars (now painted over); open triangular pediment on shaped consoles. Windows are of 2 lights with raised surrounds, the side-pieces projecting slightly above the lintels, which in turn project slightly beyond the side-pieces. 6-paned sashes in slightly recessed box-frames, except that the middle second-storey window has 4-paned sashes; all but the sashes in the left-hand window in each storey have horns. Raised quoins to both storeys, those at right-hand end of ground storey now reduced to a single vertical strip. 2 hipped dormers, 1 at either end; 2-paned sashes with horns. INTERIOR: 1976 description of 12/13A refers to 'stud and panel partitions on ground and upper floors. Apparently in deal not oak with deep moulded edges'. Buttgarden Street is believed to have been laid out c1700. (Devon County Sites and Monuments Register: SS42/048; Grant A: The Book of Bideford: 1987-: 34).

Listing NGR: SS4530826374

External Links

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