Springfield Terrace

Description

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

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BARNSTAPLE STREET, East-The-Water 842-1/7/253 (East side (off)) 19/03/73 1-7 (consecutive) Springfield Terrace

GV II

Terrace of 7 houses, set back from the street behind the Royal Hotel and the former railway line. Mid C19. Solid rendered fronts. Slate roofs. Red-brick chimneys, several with good pots, on the party-walls. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. Each house has a single canted bay window with bracketed cornice in second storey; 2 windows in third storey; 1 window in centre of ground storey with doorway to extreme left; doorways and windows in ground and third storeys have moulded architraves. Pilasters with Corinthian capitals between the upper-storey fronts and at each end. 4-panelled doors, except at No 7, which has a late C20 wooden one. Sashes throughout, except for late C20 metal-framed windows in the bays at Nos 2-4. Ground-storey windows at No 1-3 and 5 have 6-paned sashes with margin-panes. Matching sashes in the canted bay at No 1, the side-lights having 2-paned sashes with margin-panes. Canted bay at No 5 has later 8-paned sashes with 4-paned sashes at Nos 1-2, 4-5, and 7. Bracketed eaves cornice. In front of the whole ground storey is a verandah on chamfered wood posts; remains of a decorative wooden fringe at the left-hand end. INTERIOR not inspected. The terrace is not shown on Wood's 1842 map of Bideford.

Listing NGR: SS4576626549

Content

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