Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET
842-1/5/106 (South side)
19/03/73 No.21

GV II

House with shops. Late C18, refronted mid C19. Front upper
storeys of painted brick in Flemish bond; remainder rendered.
Hipped slate roof. Red-brick chimney on left side-wall.
3 storeys; 3-window range with single-light in centre,
double-light at either side. Ground storey has
horizontally-channelled rendering. To right a pair of
projecting segmental-arched openings with pilasters, keystones
and top cornice, the latter supporting 3 scroll-buttresses;
left-hand opening has 12-paned display window with iron grille
of intersecting circles below; right-hand opening has
half-glazed double-doors with flush lower panels. To left, 2
original doorways with canted bay window to left again.
Second-storey windows have cement voussoirs and keystones.
Both upper storeys have barred sashes in concealed frames: 6
over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 panes above. Prominent
moulded wooden eaves cornice.
Return to Grenville Street of 2 storeys (rise in ground level)
and 3-window range. At right-hand end a late C18 round-arched
doorway flanked by fluted Doric pilasters supporting
entablature; panelled reveals, the bottom panels flush;
fanlight with radial bars. Windows have barred sashes in
box-frames: 8 over 8 panes in centre of ground storey, 4 over
8 panes to left and centre of second storey, 3 over 6 panes to
right. Left-hand ground-storey window has mid C19 sashes with
margin-panes and horns.
INTERIOR not inspected, but at rear of shop a round-arched
doorway having a fanlight with intersecting glazing-bars
forming Gothic arches.

Listing NGR: SS4529726580

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580904

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)