65, HIGH STREET
65, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200908
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 65, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 65, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200908
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 65, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 65, 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:
- 65, 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 45256 26614
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/125 (North side) 08/11/49 No.65
GV II
House, now offices. Late C18; the left rear wing possibly earlier. Painted brick front and left side-wall on stone ashlar bases; rendered at rear. Hipped slate roof with late C19 crested red ridge-tiles. Chimney on each gable-wall, old red brick to right, rendered to left. 4-square plan with central passage to rear stair compartment, the rear rooms projecting as short wings; the left rear room is a storey lower than the rest, suggesting that it survives from an earlier building on the site. 3 storeys with basement; left rear room 2-storeyed. 3-window range, the outer windows wider than that in the centre. Doorway in middle of ground storey approached by a flight of 5 old stone steps with original patterned iron guard-rails sweeping outwards at the bottom; shoescraper to left; 6-panelled door with knocker, the 2 bottom panels flush, with matching panelled reveals and cobweb fanlight; at either side, fluted Doric pilasters supporting entablature with bracketed cornice. Adjoining windows are canted bays with lean-to slated roofs; 6-paned sashes, entablatures matching doorcase. Upper-storey windows have slightly curved brick arches and barred sashes; 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 in third storey, the outer windows with side-sashes one pane wide. Moulded board below the eaves. INTERIOR: entrance-passage has plain dado with moulded rail and skirting; panelled doors with raised moulding on the panels. Open-well wooden staircase with shaped step-ends and thin, scratch-moulded square balusters; handrail ramped up over column-newels and voluted at foot of stair. Left ground-floor front room has original wooden chimneypiece with metal ornaments; simple white marble chimneypiece in room to right. Barred sashes in rear wall, including tall, round-arched stair window with cobweb glazing in the head.
Listing NGR: SS4525626614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375836
- 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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