27, BRIDGELAND STREET
27, BRIDGELAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025052
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 27, BRIDGELAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, BRIDGELAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025052
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 27, BRIDGELAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, BRIDGELAND STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 27, BRIDGELAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45405 26794
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET 842-1/5/43 (South side) 08/11/49 No.27
GV II*
House, now offices. Probably early 1690s, heightened by a storey, enlarged and generally refurbished in late C18; rendered and with further alterations in early C19. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof with late C19 crested red ridge-tiles. Old red-brick chimney on each gable-end. Plan preserves the 1690s lay-out common to several of the houses in Bridgeland Street: 2-room front range with central through-passage; long rear wing to left containing staircase with former kitchen behind. C18/C19 additions include a right rear wing (different in height to left wing) and a short extension to through-passage. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Horizontally-chanelled ground storey. Round-arched centre doorway with attached Doric columns and entablature with modillioned cornice; door with 4 moulded panels above and 4 flush panels in the form of a St Andrews Cross below; similar panelled reveals; cobweb fanlight. At either side a canted bay window with fluted half-columns between the lights and entablature with modillioned cornice. Upper storeys have raised cement quoins; window-heads with raised cement voussoirs. Windows in all 3 storeys have 6-paned sashes, except that in third storey the upper sashes are 3-paned and the middle window has a 2-light wood casement, each light of 3 panes. Dentilled eaves cornice with small blocking-course. INTERIOR: late C18 wooden open-well staircase with slender turned balusters with square necking-pieces; shaped step-ends; handrail ramped up over column-newels. Several rooms have boxed or moulded cornices, the right rear first-floor room with in addition a fluted frieze; also late C18/early C19 wood and marble chimneypieces and 6-panelled doors. Rear wall has small-paned sashes and wood casements, including a tall round-arched window over door to through-passage. This house was built for Thomas Morcombe of Bideford, Mariner, on a 1692 lease from the Feoffees of Bideford Bridge. (Bideford Bridge Trust Surveys: A1/17-18).
Listing NGR: SS4540526794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Bideford Bridge Trust, Survey,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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