Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 MARKET PLACE
842-1/6/164 (East side)
19/03/73 New Inn Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Early C19, altered mid C19; late C19 alterations at
rear. Possibly incorporates parts of a C17/C18 building. Solid
rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Old brick chimney on ridge;
others at rear.
Plan of 2 or 3 rooms deep and 3 rooms wide with off-centre
entrance-passage leading to staircase behind the middle room.
3 storeys with 2 lower storeys at rear, where the ground falls
away; 4-window range.
Doorway between the 2 left-hand ground-storey windows. The 2
upper-storey windows to right are set slightly apart, as if
this side of the building was a later addition.
6-panelled front door with deep porch having columns with
foliated capitals. Above the porch and extending across the
whole building at first-floor level, is a balcony with
patterned iron railing (right-hand end missing).
Windows have moulded architraves and mostly barred sashes; 8
over 8 panes in ground storey, 6 over 6 panes in second
storey, 3 over 6 panes in third storey. The 2 left-hand
second-storey windows differ in having French windows with 4
panes per light. Between the 2 windows above is an inserted
2-light wood casement with 3-panes per light. Sill-band in
second storey, partly concealed by later balcony. Modillioned
eaves cornice. Left side-wall to Bridge Street has windows
with 6-paned sashes and moulded architraves, some of the
sashes paired within a single architrave.
The rear part is a storey lower with a C17/C18-style
modillioned eaves-cornice. The rear elevation has been
considerably remodelled in late C19, including a gabled bay
window with exposed timber-framing (clearly visible from the
other side of the river).
INTERIOR: ground storey has been considerably altered in late
C20, but original wooden open-well stair survives with thin
square balusters and shaped step-ends. Upper storeys not
inspected.
(Wood: Map of Bideford: 1842-).

Listing NGR: SS4532026466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504689

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