29 AND 30, HIGH STREET

29 AND 30, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200903
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200903
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
29 AND 30, HIGH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
29 AND 30, HIGH 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 45215 26593

Details

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/111 (South side) 19/03/73 Nos.29 AND 30 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) Nos.29-32 (Consecutive))

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Pair of cottages, probably a single house originally. C18 or earlier; probably C16 or C17. Solid rendered walls, probably of stone or cob. slate roof; old ridge-tiles with shallow cresting at No 30. Rendered chimney on right gable. Plan: now divided into 2 cottages of late C18 or early C19 character. No 29 has 2-room front range with central through-passage; staircase behind right-hand room; added rear wing to left. No 30 probably of 1-room plan with entrance-passage to left. 2 storeys with garret. No 29 of 2-window range with doorway between the ground-storey windows. Doorway has beaded surround and moulded cornice on shaped consoles; panelled reveals, the bottom panels flush. Ground-storey windows have plain sashes, that to right a canted bay with moulded cornice. Upper storey has 8-paned sashes in recessed box-frames. 2 gable dormers with plain bargeboards; 2-light, 2-paned wood casements. No 30 of one-window range with doorway to left of ground-storey window. 6-panelled door with knocker, the 2 bottom panels flush; reeded flanking pilasters, cornice on shaped brackets. Windows have sashes with margin-panes. Flat-topped dormer with plain 2-light wood casement. INTERIOR: inspected only at No 29 which has geometrical wood stair with thin square balusters, the handrail voluted at the foot over a 6-sided newel. Late C18 cupboard on stairs, with ovolo-moulded panelled doors. 2 early plank doors in garret. Behind No 29 is a large stone-rubble structure with a blocked opening having a rounded red-brick arch. Owner suggested it could have been a limekiln.

Listing NGR: SS4521526593

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
375825
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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