53 AND 54, HIGH STREET
53 AND 54, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200905
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 54, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 54, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200905
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 54, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 54, 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.
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:
- 53 AND 54, 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 45151 26608
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/118 (North side) Nos.53 AND 54
GV II
Pair of houses with shop; probably a single house originally. Early or mid C19 remodelling, probably of a C17 or earlier house. Solid rendered front. Slate roof with crested red ridge-tiles. Rendered chimney on right-hand end-wall. Probably a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, 1 room deep, with long rear wing to right; doorway probably inserted into middle room when house sub-divided. 3 storeys. Combined symmetrical front of 3-window range, the middle ground-storey window flanked by 2 round-arched doorways. Ground storey has horizontal channelling finished with a raised band at sill-level in the second storey; doorways have voussoirs channelled in the render. Door at No 53 is 4-panelled with brass letterbox. No 54 has late C20 glazed shop door; plain display windows at either side, probably enlargements of ordinary domestic windows. Remaining windows have 2-paned, box-framed sashes with a single upright glazing-bar, except for middle second-storey window, which has a 4-paned late C20 casement. INTERIOR not inspected. (Planning Application: 1990-: SS43NE/234).
Listing NGR: SS4515126608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375831
- 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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