Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 ALLHALLAND STREET
842-1/6/4 (West side)
19/03/73 No.3

GV II

Includes: Sloops Restaurant BRIDGE STREET.
House with shop; rear wing now a restaurant. Mid C19; rear
wing C17 or earlier. Solid roughcast walls. Slated roofs,
except for corrugated asbestos on rear section of wing.
Rendered chimney on rear wall of main range; base of another
on rear gable of wing, with small C20 brick chimney on top.
Front range probably double-fronted and 2 rooms deep. Rear
wing to right is one room wide and 2 rooms deep; restaurant
also occupies the former detached back block of 4 Allhalland
Street (qv). Cart-entrance under left-hand end of front range.
Front range 3 storeys; rear wing 2 storeys. Front to
Allhalland Street of 4-window range. Ground storey has late
C19 or early C20 fishmonger's shop front; pair of 4-paned,
removable display windows with tiled bases, flanking
half-glazed double-doors with patterned iron grille above;
flanking pilasters and entablature with fluted consoles at
either end. Cart-entrance with shaped surround at left-hand
end. Upper storeys have raised quoins. Windows have shaped
surrounds and 2-paned sashes, except that the third
second-storey window from the left is blind. Wing (Sloops
Restaurant) is of 3-window range with 6-paned sashes.
The rear section is taller, as if it originally contained 3
storeys. Wood's 1842 of Bideford shows that the wing formerly
faced Hind Court, until the buildings on the S side of the
latter were demolished, opening it up to Bridge Street.
INTERIOR: shop has its original white and coloured tiled
interior. Sloops Restaurant has chamfered and stopped
ceiling-beam in rear ground-floor room. Remainder of interior
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4540826502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571883

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  For the Record