18 And 19 The Quay

Description

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

BIDEFORD

SS4526 THE QUAY 842-1/5/229 (West side) 19/03/73 Nos.18 AND 19

GV II

Pair of houses, now shop and offices. Early C19. Solid rendered fronts. Slate roof. Red-brick chimneys on left gable-end and on party-wall. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; each house of 1-window range, although No 18 is slightly the wider with 2 windows in third storey. No 18 has round-arched doorway to left with pilasters, moulded archivolt and keystone; 6-panelled door, probably an early C20 replacement. Ground-storey window to right has triple 4-paned sashes with horns. No 19 has late C19 shop front with glazing-bars; bracketed blocks at each end of entablature. Bow windows in second storey with 6-paned sashes and top entablatures, except that the bow at No 19 is narrower and has 4-paned side-sashes. Third-storey windows also have barred sashes: 3 panes over 6. Bracketed eaves cornice. Rear elevation to Queen Street has 6-paned sashes; 6-panelled door at No 19. INTERIOR: only the ground-floor front room and staircase at No 18 inspected. Former has moulded plaster cornice. Latter is of wood, geometrical with thin square balusters and shaped step-ends; altered at bottom of first flight.

Listing NGR: SS4548026742

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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