19 High Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/105 (South side) No.19

GV II

House, now with shop. Mid C19. Rendered solid front. Roof covered with corrugated iron. No chimneys visible from street.

Classical style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Ground storey arranged in 2 bays flanked and separated by rusticated pilasters supporting an entablature. Pilasters stand on high panelled pedestals, the neckings of their capitals decorated with small flowers; on the cornice above each pilaster is a small, panelled round-headed finial containing a scallop-shell. Wider left-hand bay contains a late C20 shop front; right-hand bay has a 6-panelled door (with 2 old letterboxes) set in a moulded segmental-headed opening with panelled keystone. Second-storey windows have eared architraves with buttressed feet, shaped fluted friezes and moulded cornices; in the centre of each frieze is a square panel containing a 4-leaved flower. Third-storey windows have plain architraves with buttresses feet; moulded sills, continued across the front, supported by 2 small brackets. Both storeys have plain sashes. Dentilled eaves-cornice. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4531126568

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1773 IOE Records taken by Tim Sanders; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Tim Sanders. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project