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Number 20 and the Old Town Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Ilfracombe, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2087 / 51°12'31"N

Longitude: -4.1223 / 4°7'20"W

OS Eastings: 251846

OS Northings: 147639

OS Grid: SS518476

Mapcode National: GBR KN.41J1

Mapcode Global: VH4M4.HWK9

Plus Code: 9C3Q6V5H+F3

Entry Name: Number 20 and the Old Town Hall

Listing Date: 23 February 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1293104

English Heritage Legacy ID: 390202

ID on this website: 101293104

Location: Ilfracombe, North Devon, EX34

County: Devon

District: North Devon

Civil Parish: Ilfracombe

Built-Up Area: Ilfracombe

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Ilfracombe Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


SS5147
853-1/6/63
23/02/78

ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.20 and The Old Town Hall

GV
II

Former Town Hall, now a shop with vacant upper floors. 1861/2.
Bath stone ashlar. 3 storeys 3 bays, central bay narrower.
Italianate style. Facade articulated by two tiers of attached
Doric columns supporting imposts and cornices breaking forward
over columns and then a top tier of attached Ionic columns
with imposts supporting a cornice and blocking course, both
broken forward over columns. Rusticated ground floor of three
semi-circular arches to, left to right, shop, footway and
road. Each upper floor bay with a round-arched, architraved,
4-pane hornless sash. Passageways under the building vaulted;
the street divided from the footway by an arcade of 4 large
and 2 smaller round-headed arches with plain capitals. A
moulded cornice and hanging shop sign support indicate that
shops and windows, now blocked, once faced the footway. Rear
elevation rendered with two 15-pane and one 4:12:4 pane
tripartite hornless sash windows. INTERIOR not inspected. All
the listed buildings in High Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SS5184647639

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