Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BUTTGARDEN STREET
842-1/6/64 (West side)
No.16

GV II

House with shop. Probably late C18 or early C19 with shop
front and other additions of late C19 or early C20. Solid
rendered front. Slate roof. Red-brick chimney on right
side-wall. 3 storeys; 2-window range. In left-hand bay of
ground storey a doorcase flanked by Doric pilasters supporting
a triangular pediment; door with 6 ovolo-moulded panels and
matching reveals. Shop front flanked by pilasters with fluting
on the lower part of the shafts and on the capitals;
entablature with heavily-moulded cornice, this breaking
forward at each end over a pair of shaped brackets; 2 display
windows, canted in centre towards recessed, half-glazed
double-doors, each with a solid moulded lower panel. Upper
storeys have shallow rectangular bay window of 2 lights to
right, the second storey with a moulded cornice above the
lights. Left-hand windows have long aprons forming a
continuous vertical feature to match the bay. 2-paned sashes
with horns in both storeys; continued sills. Deeply projecting
bracketed eaves cornice.
INTERIOR not inspected, but inside the house-door is a
half-glazed inner door with glazing-bars, the margin-panes
containing coloured glass.

Listing NGR: SS4530426398

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496645

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)