Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 WILDER ROAD 853-1/6/137 (West side) Nos.19-45 (Odd) Beaconsfield Terrace

GV II

Terrace of working-class houses. Dated 1880; architect possibly WM Robbins of Ilfracombe. MATERIALS: stone rubble with dressings of cream coloured brick. Slated roofs with crested red ridge tiles, hipped at right-hand end. Slates have either been tarred or replaced in asbestos, except at No.25; plain ridge tiles have been substituted for the original crested ones at Nos 31, 35-41 and 45. The dormer gables at Nos 19, 21, 25-29 and 35 have pierced red ridge tiles. Red brick chimneys with bands of cream coloured brick on the party walls; those at Nos 23 & 41 have been rendered, and those at Nos 29-33 and No.37 rebuilt. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Each house is 2 windows-wide with door to left of ground storey; the window to right of ground storey is of 2 lights with central brick pier. No.45 (the corner house) differs in having its door on the splayed angle and a 3-light window to Wilder Road. Doorways and windows have segmental brick arches, both these and the jambs being moulded, except for the doorways of Nos 39 & 45, which are plain; the lintel of the latter appears to have been rebuilt in concrete. Bracketed eaves, the brackets of moulded yellow brick. The wide right-hand window in the upper storey of each house rises above eaves level and is finished with a large gable filled with decorative brickwork (some of it glazed) and framed by lightly carved bargeboards. In the centre of the gable at No.27 is a stone plaque inscribed BEACONSFIELD TERRACE. 1880. The doors are 4-panelled; the lower panels flush; Nos 21 & 43 have good knockers and letterboxes, the former in brass, the latter in iron. 2-paned fanlights. At No.37 the upper panels of the doors have been glazed, and at No.45 the door has 2 moulded panels below and a single glazed panel above. The original doors have been wholly replaced at Nos 19, 29, 31, 33 and 39; at No.29 the replacement is a 6-panelled door of good quality. Nos 19, 31, 33, 39 and 45 now have plain fanlights. Windows have 2-paned sashes with a single horizontal glazing bar, except for the right-hand upper storey windows, which have 2-light mullioned and transomed wood casements, the lower lights with 2 panes matching those in the sashes. Blind upper storey window in the splayed angle at No.45. Glazing bars have been removed from the windows at No.23, from the upper storey windows at No.29 and from the left-hand upper storey window at No.41. At No.35 all the windows have C20 metal frames and at No.37 a plain shop window has been inserted in the ground storey. At No.19 the door and window surrounds have been painted, at No.35 the door surround only, and at No.37 the door and window surrounds in the ground storey. Return front of No.45, visible from the lane leading into Church Road, has a doorway and 2 windows similar to those in the main front, although the door has been replaced. To the left is a 6-paned C19 shop window with frieze and moulded cornice. To the right is a plain dormer gable with 2-light wood casement, each light of 3 panes. The rear elevations, visible from an alley, are mostly rendered. Each house has a short projecting rear wing. INTERIORS not inspected. These may have been the 'cottages' for which Mr Fredrick Durke submitted plans to Ilfracombe Local Board of Health in 1880; architect WM Robbins. At the time of the census in April 1881 only some of the houses had occupants; these included a plumber, a painter, a mason, a general labourer, a railway clerk and a railway porter. (Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning Register on microfilm: Book 1: 2 & 4).

Listing NGR: SS5148347458

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