Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 MILL STREET
842-1/5/187 (South West side)
19/03/73 Nos.25 AND 26

GV II

House with shops. Probably early C18, remodelled mid C19.
Solid rendered walls (a small patch of red brick exposed).
Steeply-pitched slate roof. Red-brick chimney on each
gable-end. Altered single-depth plan, with short rear wing,
containing staircase and one further room, to right. 3
storeys; 2-window range. Wide mid C19 shop front with
pilasters; entablature with prominent bracketed cornice;
centre doorway flanked by display windows, that to right
probably designed originally to be open to the street.
Upper-storey windows have shaped cement surrounds; those in
second storey are the wider with paired sashes having
margin-panes; those in third storey have 8-paned sashes.
Side-wall to Hart Street has house-doors. 2 single-light
windows matching those at the front; sashes with margin-panes.
Raised quoins to right.
INTERIOR much altered: original wood dog-leg stair; square
with flat moulded cap at the bottom, possibly balusters
boarded in. Feet of probably old roof-trusses visible.

Listing NGR: SS4530526764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496689

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings