Description

SS4526
842-1/5/162

BIDEFORD
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
Nos.16 AND 17

GV
II

Shown on OS map as Nos 15 and 16.
Grocer's shop, now office; accommodation above at No 17. 1895.
By RT Hookway of Bideford. Rendered solid front; slate roof.
Red-brick chimney on ridge, off-centre to right; another on
left rear wing (visible from car park). Italian Renaissance
style.
3 storeys. Broad front of 4-window range. 4-bay design with
pilasters of different styles supporting entablatures above
each storey. First and third bays from left are narrow, second
and fourth bays wide. Ground storey has panelled Doric
pilasters with a diamond-shaped panel in the centre. Above
each pilaster, superimposed on the architrave and frieze, is a
foliated bracket resembling a capital, the cornice breaking
forward over it.
Original display windows remain in fourth bay from left: 3
round-arched openings with traceried spandrels, the outer
openings glazed, the centre one leading to recessed,
half-glazed double-doors with solid moulded panels at the
bottom. Ceiling over the recess in front of the doors
panelled. Head of a matching window survives in left-hand bay.
Third bay from left contains a pair of recessed doorways (door
to right 4-panelled); panelled pilaster between them.
Second storey has panelled pilasters with foliated capitals,
the shafts with circular panels in the middle; entablature
with panelled frieze breaking forward over the pilasters and
having a diamond-shaped panel above each window.
The wider bays contain bay windows having rounded corners and
entablatures with panelled friezes; narrower left-hand bay
contains a 3-light window, and the third bay from left a pair
of windows with 1 light each. All 4 windows have sashes with
horns, the middle lights of the left-hand window and the 2 bay
windows with margin-panes. Third storey has fluted Doric
pilasters rising directly to a dentilled cornice.
Wider bays contain 3-light windows with shaped flat surrounds.
Third bay from right contains a pair of segmental-headed
windows with moulded architraves, buttresses at the foot. All
3 windows have sashes with horns, the upper sashes 9-paned, or
3-paned in the sidelights; the left-hand window, with flat
shaped surround, is now blind.
Front is finished with a panelled parapet, broken above the
pilasters by panelled pedestals carrying urns.
Rear wall (clearly visible from Bridge Street car park) has 2
rear wings, that to left (north) of exposed rubble masonry,
that to right rendered; between them a lower, flat-roofed
range. INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value.
(Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1893-1895; Wilson: Wilsons Bideford
Directory: 1895-: P.23).

Listing NGR: SS4530126517

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496683

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  For the Record
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)