Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGE STREET
842-1/6/18 (North side)
19/03/73 No.11

GV II

House with shop. Late C18 or early C19; mid C19 shop-front;
late C19 workshops at rear. Rendered solid walls; workshops of
exposed stone rubble and brick. Slate roofs; workshops partly
covered with corrugated iron or asbestos. Late C19 red brick
chimney with spiked pots on right gable-end.
Double-depth plan: large shop to left has entrance-passage to
right of it, leading to rear staircase, small room to right of
that again. Left rear wing contains former workshops, latterly
part of No 18 Market Place (q.v.).
2 storeys with basement; 3-window range. Shop front and
house-door flanked and separated by pilasters supporting an
entablature: 2 display windows, each of 6 panes, canted in
centre towards recessed door; paired house-doors to right,
each 6-panelled with matching reveals; bottom panels generally
flush, except for left-hand door where all the panels are
moulded and carry a raised moulding in the centre. To right is
a box-framed sash-window with margin-panes; below it, where
the ground falls away, a C20 basement door. Barred sashes in
concealed frames in upper storey: 8 over 8 panes in the
centre. 10 over 10 on the outside.
INTERIOR inspected in the ground storey and basement only.
Main house has wooden staircase with shaped step-ends, thin
square balusters and fluted column-newel.
Rear wing has 2 late C19 staircases with slender turned
balusters.

Listing NGR: SS4531226494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501863

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