Description

SS5147
853-1/6/65

ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.27

GV
II

Shop with accommodation above. Mid to late C19. Yellow brick
with minor dressings of stone and red brick; bands of
patterned red tiles between the upper storeys. Exposed left
side wall slate hung; red brick chimney at the top, slate hung
on left side. Roof not visible from street. 4 storeys. 4
windows wide, the windows paired. Ground storey has mid C20
metal-framed shopfront with tiled fascia. Upper storey windows
are round-arched with keystones and continued imposts, the
latter composed of projecting brick courses; plain sashes.
Bracketed top cornice and blocking-course; red brick panels
between the brackets. INTERIOR: ground-floor completely
altered. The building forms a good group with Nos 26 and 28-32
(even) (qv), mostly later C19 commercial architecture of a
remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size.

Listing NGR: SS5180147613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503666

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)