Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET
842-1/5/118 (North side)
Nos.53 AND 54

GV II

Pair of houses with shop; probably a single house originally.
Early or mid C19 remodelling, probably of a C17 or earlier
house. Solid rendered front. Slate roof with crested red
ridge-tiles. Rendered chimney on right-hand end-wall. Probably
a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, 1 room deep, with long rear
wing to right; doorway probably inserted into middle room when
house sub-divided. 3 storeys. Combined symmetrical front of
3-window range, the middle ground-storey window flanked by 2
round-arched doorways. Ground storey has horizontal
channelling finished with a raised band at sill-level in the
second storey; doorways have voussoirs channelled in the
render. Door at No 53 is 4-panelled with brass letterbox. No
54 has late C20 glazed shop door; plain display windows at
either side, probably enlargements of ordinary domestic
windows. Remaining windows have 2-paned, box-framed sashes
with a single upright glazing-bar, except for middle
second-storey window, which has a 4-paned late C20 casement.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Planning Application: 1990-: SS43NE/234).

Listing NGR: SS4515126608

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496664

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings