Description

SS4526
842-1/5/163

BIDEFORD
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
No.18

GV
II

Shop with living accommodation above. Late C19. Red-brick
front with painted cement or stone detail; there may be bands
of patterned and coloured tiling under the paint. Slate roof.
Red-brick chimney at rear. Classical style.
3 storeys with garret; 3-window range, the middle windows set
in a projection which rises above eaves-level, forming a
dormer gable with triangular pediment.
Shop front in ground storey with house-door to left. Above it
an entablature flanked by large fluted consoles carrying
shaped blocks. Second storey has a plain 3-light window in
centre with plain lintel and moulded cornice above, these
forming the pedestal for a pair of giant pilasters supporting
the pediment. Third-storey middle window has eared architrave
and panelled apron. Window in dormer-gable is segmental-headed
with scrolled keystone; 4 wood-mullioned casements with 2
transom-lights, each of 6 panes, sill continued to reach the
flanking pilasters. Outer windows in second storey have eared
architraves, buttresses at the foor; moulded cornices,
positioned to allow for a non-existant frieze. Corresponding
windows in third storey plain, but with moulded sills and
shaped aprons.
Plain painted bands (possibly tiled originally) link
window-heads in both upper storeys. Prominent moulded eaves
cornice broken in centre by the dormer gable; each end-section
supported by fluted brackets.
Second and third-storey windows have sashes with horns, those
in third storey with a single upright glazing-bar.
Rear wall, clearly visible from Bridge Street, is rendered;
windows mostly C20, but at left of each of second and third
storeys is box-framed sash window, the lower sashes 6-paned,
the upper ones 3-paned. In front of them are 2 lower brick
buildings and 1 of wood. INTERIOR not inspected. A bold design
which forms a prominent feature of the Market Place area.

Listing NGR: SS4530226505

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504649

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