Description

SS5147
853-1/6/79

ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.110, 111 AND 112

GV
II

Shops with living accommodation above. Early 1880s by WC
Oliver of Barnstaple.
MATERIALS: cream-coloured brick with dressings of stone and
purplish-red band blue brick. Roof not visible from street.
PLAN: Double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 3-windows-wide, each window of 3 lights.
Shopfronts in ground storey, considerably altered except for
the middle shop (No.111). This has a display window divided by
a single vertical glazing bar; band of green and brown tiles
below. Glazed shop door, set back to right. Above both display
window and shop door is a frieze of coloured glass panels
surmounted by an enriched cornice. The cornice continues
across No.110, which may retain the frieze behind a C20
fascia.
6-panelled house door to left of No.110. The frieze may also
survive behind a C20 fascia at No.112; this shop retains at
the left-hand end the carved gabled block that originally
terminated the cornice. Projecting above the shopfront at
No.110 is an iron bar for a hanging sign; twisted shaft,
fleurs-de-lis finials.
In second storey the windows have stone surrounds with
trefoil-headed arches springing from columns, the blind window
heads carved with flowers; impost-band of carved stone and red
and blue brick. In third storey the windows are plain with
segmental stone arches to the lights, these having outer
arches of purplish-red brick; impost band as in second storey,
moulded stone stringcourse at sill level. Similar stringcourse
in fourth storey where the windows have flat stone arches; the
piers between the lights have been rebuilt in red brick.
Enriched wood and stone top cornice with imitation
machicolation. All windows have plain sashes with horns.
Walls of rear courtyards are slate hung. No.111 has
ground-floor rear window with coloured glass.
INTERIOR inspected only at No.111. This has wooden staircase
with turned balusters, rising through all four floors. Carved
wooden chimneypiece in ground floor room of rear range.
Several 4-panelled doors.
(Hussell AT: Ilfracombe Chronicle, 25.6.1937: 2).

Listing NGR: SS5173647558

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498596

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5