Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 ALLHALLAND STREET 842-1/5/6 (West side) 19/03/73 Nos.6, 6A AND 7 (Formerly Listed as: ALLHALLAND STREET Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 CHAPEL STREET. Pair of houses with cottages at rear; probably to have been one large house originally. C17 or earlier; Allhalland Street front rebuilt mid C18. Painted brick front in Flemish bond; rest has solid rendered walls, at least some of them stone rubble. Slate roofs. 2 rebuilt red-brick chimneys on left gable-wall; one older red-brick chimney on right gable-wall. Plan: Nos 6, 6A and 7 occupy the street-frontage with C19 rear wing to left. No 1 Chapel Street is a 2-room early or mid C17 rear range to right, originally extending into part of No 2. Latter is the remains of a range formerly extending further W; it now incorporates a one-room cottage fronting Union Street on S, possibly a former detached rear block of 6 Allhalland Street. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2 late C19 shop-fronts, that to No 6 with slender columns supporting shallow segmental arches; entablatures with consoles supporting each end of cornice. Each house has Venetian window in upper storey with plain stone surrounds, bracketed sills, keystones to round centre arches. C20 wood casements to No 6, small-paned sashes with thick glazing-bars (possibly original) to No 7: 8 over 8 panes plus radial window-head bars in centre light, 4 over 4 panes in outer lights. Between the Venetian windows a blind segmental-headed window with keystone. Whole front flanked by horizontally-channelled pilaster-strips. Boxed eaves cornice. No 6 has 2 and 4-paned sashes in side-wall facing Union Street; 2-paned sashes in rear wall of C19 addition. No 1 Chapel Street has 6 and 8-paned sashes in ground storey plus a later sash-window with margin-panes. Small-paned wood casements in upper storey; also in both storeys at No 2. Latter has C19 door with 4 flush panels; facing the courtyard is a wide window, now mostly blocked. INTERIOR: rear ground-floor room to No 6 has C18 box cornice. Upper storey of 6,6A and 7 not inspected. No 1 Chapel Street has chamfered ceiling-beam in left-hand ground-floor room; owner says there is a large carved granite chimneypiece concealed in rear wall. Between the 2 ground-floor rooms is a stud-and-panel screen exposed on right-hand side: studs chamfered with scroll-stops top and bottom. Right-hand room has C18 door with 2 raised-and-fielded panels. The ceiling beam of this room projects into No 2 Chapel Street; the rear section of No 2 has a roof-truss with a halved collar having roughly-shaped inset ends.

Listing NGR: SS4539426525

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