21 AND 23, WEST STREET

21 AND 23, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107283
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
21 AND 23, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
21 AND 23, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107283
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
21 AND 23, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
21 AND 23, WEST 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
21 AND 23, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Witheridge
National Grid Reference:
SS8034014462

Details

SS 81 SW
9/104

WITHERIDGE
WEST STREET (south side),
Witheridge
Nos. 21 and 23

GV
II

House and house with shop on ground floor. Mid C19. Roughcast on a
rubble core, slate roof hipped to the right, tall rendered stack which is to the
right.
Plan and development: No.21 a symmetrical house with a central lobby entrance with
staircase, room to each side, No.23 an attached house of similar plan but at right-
angles to the street.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrically spaced 4 first floor windows, C19 12-pane sash
windows with exposed sash boxes, thin glazing bars, wood cills. Door opening to
left of ground floor, mid C19 4-panelled door with a transom light, ledge porch on
mid C19 ornamental cast-iron brackets. Shop front to right of ground floor, early
to mid C19, large 3-pane window half-glazed door to right, wooden pilasters flanking
the whole with a fascia and ledge cornice. Further C20 door opening inserted to the
left of the ground floor. Occupies a prominent corner position.
Interior: No.21 with left ground floor room, now converted to a shop with a
fireplace in reeded stone surround, cupboard in chimneybreast alcove with door
removed. The rest of the interior was not seen.

Listing NGR: SS8034014462

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
97514
Legacy System:
LBS

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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