30 Bridgeland Street

Description

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

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET 842-1/5/46 (South side) No.30

GV II

Part of a large house including Nos 31-32 (qv), remodelled as a separate house and now a shop with flats above. 1692, remodelled late C18. Solid rendered front; left wall of rear section is original late C17 work (now painted), the ground storey of stone rubble, the upper storey of brick with a raised band at first-floor level. Slate roof. Old red-brick chimney on left party-wall of front section. Double-depth plan, one room wide, with staircase between the front and back rooms; the rear section is probably the wing of an original U-shaped house; the opposing wing is now part of No 32 (qv). 3 storeys (rear section 2-storeyed with garret); 2-window range. Ground storey contains a shop front (probably C19, much rebuilt) with late C20 6-panelled house-door to left. Upper-storey windows have 6-paned sashes in slightly recessed box-frames. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. INTERIOR: ground storey altered, except that entrance-passage has a date of late C18, 2-fillet ovolo-moulded panelling. At rear of building (possibly in a later addition) is a wide fireplace with C19 iron basket-grate. Staircase altered, but flight rising to first floor retains some slender late C18 turned balusters with square necking-pieces; rounded handrail ramped up at top over a column-newel. Upper-storey rooms not inspected, except for the (entirely plain) garret-rooms at the rear. (Fielder D: A History of Bideford: 1985-: PLATE 22).

Listing NGR: SS4544726794

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