Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HONESTONE STREET
842-1/6/145 (South side)
Nos.7 AND 9

GV II

Pair of houses with shops. Early or mid C19. Solid rendered
front; left side-wall slatehung. Slate roof; rear slope at No
9 covered with corrugated asbestos. Old red-brick chimney on
left side-wall, probably shared with No 5; rendered chimney on
rear roof-slope of No 9. Two old red-brick chimneys on rear
wings, that to No 9 partly rendered. Double-depth plan; open
passage to Hyfield Place at right-hand end of ground storey of
No 9. Long adjacent rear wings.
3 storeys; each house of 2-window range. Ground storey has
channelled rustication. Shop fronts at both houses, No 7
having in addition a house-door to right; house-door to No 9
opens into the passage at right-hand end.
Shop front to No 7 has 4-paned display window with upright
glazing-bars, canted on right-hand side towards recesses,
half-glazed double-doors with solid moulded bottom panels.
4-panelled house-door with old letterbox, flanked by panelled
pilasters. Both shop and house-doors at No 7 have old
grey-stone doorsteps.
No 9 has 2-paned display window with an upright glazing-bar;
half-glazed shop door to right, both the upper panel and the
fanlight above of 2 panes with an upright glazing-bar. To
right of it, a pair of panelled pilasters matching those at No
7, but here flanking only a patch of horizontally channelled
rustication.
Entablature across the ground storey, with fluted panels above
the pilasters. Upper-storey windows have 3-paned sashes, each
with 2 upright glazing-bars, in recessed box-frames. Plain
wooden board below the eaves. Left side-wall has 2-light
wooden casement window in third storey, each light of 3 panes.
No 9 has 4-panelled door opening into passage, the top 2
panels glazed.
Rear wing, fronting Hyfield Place, has 2-paned sash-windows.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4523526438

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496677

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey