Merchant House
MERCHANT HOUSE, 8A AND 8B, ALLHALLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200862
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANT HOUSE, 8A AND 8B, ALLHALLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200862
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANT HOUSE, 8A AND 8B, ALLHALLAND 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:
- MERCHANT HOUSE, 8A AND 8B, ALLHALLAND 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 45402 26544
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 ALLHALLAND STREET 842-1/5/8 (West side) 19/03/73 Nos.8A AND 8B Merchant House (Formerly Listed as: ALLHALLAND STREET (West side) Nos.8A AND 8B)
GV II
House, now shops, offices and restaurant. C16 or C17, remodelled early and late C18. Slate roof. Old red brick chimney on left gable end. Plan altered. Plan: in late C18 a double-fronted plan, one-room deep, with centre through-passage leading to rear wing; latter clearly a later addition to original fabric. Immediately over front door the end of a C16/C17 cross-beam with no partition marks on soffit, suggesting a complete C18 remodelling of original plan. Arrangement of cornice suggests first floor all one room in early C18. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Narrow 2-light centre window with 3-light ones on outside. Centre doorway has attached Roman Doric columns supporting entablature; round-arched opening with moulded imposts and archivolt; panelled reveals, the bottom panels flush; half-glazed door with cobweb fanlight. At either side, horizontally-channelled render; window to right has remains of triple sashes, the 2-paned side-sashes still surviving. Small, half-glazed C19 door to extreme right. Upper storeys flanked by raised quoins; windows have late C19 or early C20 wood casements, those in second storey with patterned coloured glass in transom-light. INTERIOR: ground-floor partitions removed. Centre beam chamfered with pyramid stops both ends. Former left-hand room has early C18 boxed cornices. Similar cornice on rear wall of first-floor room. 2 early C18 doors with raised-and-fielded one-fillet ovolo-moulded panels and strap-hinges. Remains of stair with thin square balusters, in rear wing.
Listing NGR: SS4540226542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375714
- 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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