NUMBER 20 AND THE OLD TOWN HALL

20, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293104
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 20 AND THE OLD TOWN HALL
Statutory Address:: 20, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293104
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 20 AND THE OLD TOWN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: 20, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 20, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE OLD TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ilfracombe
National Grid Reference:: SS5184647639

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 390202
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.