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29 and 30, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Ilfracombe, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2084 / 51°12'30"N

Longitude: -4.1232 / 4°7'23"W

OS Eastings: 251786

OS Northings: 147609

OS Grid: SS517476

Mapcode National: GBR KN.419K

Mapcode Global: VH4M4.HW3H

Plus Code: 9C3Q6V5G+9P

Entry Name: 29 and 30, High Street

Listing Date: 14 March 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208604

English Heritage Legacy ID: 390206

ID on this website: 101208604

Location: Ilfracombe, North Devon, EX34

County: Devon

District: North Devon

Civil Parish: Ilfracombe

Built-Up Area: Ilfracombe

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Ilfracombe Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description



ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 HIGH STREET
853-1/6/67 (North side)
Nos.29 AND 30

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. Mid to late C19. Stone rubble
with details in dressed stone. Roof not visible from street.
Base of red brick chimney on right side wall. 4 storeys. 3
windows wide. Ground storey has arcade of 8 octagonal
cast-iron columns, partly fluted and with enriched capitals;
arched above boxed in, except for 2 shouldered arches at
right-hand end. Rusticated pilaster at each end, finished with
a tall, oblong block inlaid with coloured tiles; foliated
bracket below, ball finial on top. 2 shopfronts behind the
columns, well preserved, although with some parts boxed in.
Display window to right has transom light of coloured, leaded
glass; shop to left has glazed door with 2 solid moulded
panels at the bottom and a panelled right-hand reveal.
4-panelled house door at left-hand end. Upper storeys have
raised quoins and bands between storeys. Windows of 2-lights
with eccentrically tall shouldered arches; centre piers have
plain capitals. Plain sashes. Bracketed top cornice and
parapet. INTERIOR: ground-floor completely altered. The
building is part of a good group comprising Nos 26-32 High
Street (qqv), mostly later C19 commercial architecture of a
remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size.
(Horridge GK: Ilfracombe A Pictorial Record: Plates 25 & 26).


Listing NGR: SS5178647609

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