11 And 12 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 842-1/6/60 (West side) Nos.11 AND 12

GV II

House, now sub-divided. Probably early C18, remodelled early or mid C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof, continued across No 13 (q.v.). Old red-brick chimney on left side-wall; another on right side-wall, its top rebuilt. 2 storeys with garret; 3-window range with doorway in middle bay of ground storey. Doorway has flat hood on consoles; flanking pilasters with rectangular incised pattern and 6-panelled door. Windows have 12-paned sashes, except for shorter middle second-storey window, which has 8-paned sashes. 2 small dormer windows, each of 2 lights with pent-roofs; probably inserted later. INTERIOR: 1976 report on 12 and 13A mentions 'stud and panel partitions on ground and upper floors. Apparently in deal not oak with deep moulded edges'. Buttgarden Street is believed to have been laid out c1700. (Grant A: The Book of Bideford: 1987-: P.34).

Listing NGR: SS4530826363

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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