Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5247 FORE STREET
853-1/7/41 (North side)
No.63

GV II

Former county police station, now a restaurant. Dated 1873, by
HW Farley of Exeter.
MATERIALS: local New Road squared stone rubble with dressings
of Forest of Dean stone. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimneys
on side walls. Italiante style with Gothic details.
PLAN: the original plans show a double-fronted, double-depth
plan. The ground storey was to have a central entrance passage
with charge room to left and kitchen to right; 2 cells at the
rear with stair to right. 5 bedrooms on upper floor. In
basement another kitchen, back kitchen, pantry cellar, coal
store, 2 wash houses, 2 privys (one a 2-seater) and an ash
pit; there was a yard at the rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement. Symmetrical 3-window front.
Centre doorway with segmental arch and hood mould; 4-panelled
door. BEVERLEY in gilt letters on fanlight (it was originally
to have had POLICE STATION in this position); date 1873 carved
above. 2-light window on either side and in corresponding
positions in second storey; single light window above the
door. Ground storey windows have chamfered and stopped
mullions, these being replaced in second storey by columns
with enriched capitals. Prominent bracketed stone eaves
cornice.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The police station was erected by R Thorn and J Hicks of
Ilfracombe, builders, at a cost of »1,018. 10s. 0d. The roof
was to be covered with Delabole or Welsh slate and the
interior lit by gas.
(Devon Record Office, Police Station Plans, B13/5/4; Hussell
AT: Ilfracombe Chronicle, 20.8.1937: 8).

Listing NGR: SS5212947749

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581172

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