19 Buttgarden Street

Description

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

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BUTTGARDEN STREET 842-1/6/67 (West side) No.19

GV II

House with shop. Probably late C17 to mid C18, remodelled mid C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof with steep rear slope, suggesting that front wall has been heightened. No chimneys visible from street. 2 storeys; broad front of 3-window range. Ground storey has horizontal channelling; finished at top with a broad bandcourse. Doorway is in a single-storeyed surround sandwiched between this building and No 18. 6-panelled door with plain fanlight, flanked by chamfered and stopped pilasters; 3 small flat balls on the frieze; shaped surround to fanlight, parapet with quatrefoil panels. At right-hand end is a shop front with flanking pilasters similar to those on the doorway, except that the shafts have horizontal channelling and the capitals are enriched; above each pilaster is a shaped bracket carrying a round-headed panelled block, these forming the terminals of a frieze now disguised by a later fascia. 2 display windows canted in centre towards recessed double-doors; windows are of 3 lights with moulded upright glazing-bars and shaped heads, doors have glazed upper panels with rounded heads and solid moulded lower panels. Single sash window with horns and margin-panes to left. Second storey has canted bay window with prominent top-cornice to left, 2 single-light windows to right; all have sashes with horns, all but the side-lights of the bays with margin-panes. INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS4530426432

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

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© Mr Tim Sanders. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project