The Gannet Public House
THE GANNET PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200910
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Gannet Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GANNET PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200910
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Gannet Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GANNET PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, 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:
- THE GANNET PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, 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 45304 26609
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/130 (North side) No.70 The Gannet Public House
GV II
Wine merchant's shop, now Public House. c1884-5; possibly by A Thorne. Coursed stone rubble with details in red sandstone; ground storey painted. Tarred slate roof. Red-brick chimney, with moulded top cornice, on left side-wall. Eclectic Queen Anne style, with Early Renaissance details to symmetrical front. 3 storeys with garret; 3-window range. Ground storey arranged in 4 bays with pilasters between and at either end. Each contains a round-arched opening with moulded archivolt springing from square half-columns and having a fluted keystone; above the pilasters is a deep entablature, at each end of which is a pedestal carrying a fruit-filled vase in high relief, the pedestals in turn resting on large foliated scroll-brackets; the urns are still unpainted. Much of the detail within the arches appears to have been altered, but the second arch from the right has a transom-light with coloured glass. Upper storeys flanked by pilasters, these being linked across the front between the storeys by an entablature with panelled frieze. Third-storey pilasters rise to a moulded eaves cornice. Windows have moulded architraves and 2-paned sashes, except for the middle second-storey window; this takes the form of a 3-light mullioned-and-transomed bow window with panelled, moulded base and top entablature, the latter surmounted by a patterned iron railing. 3 dormer gables with flanking pilasters and triangular pediments: the pilasters are buttressed by scrolls and the round-arched windows have moulded keystones rising to the apexes of the pediments; 2-paned sashes; the dormers have slate-hung sides. INTERIOR: only partly inspected. Ground-storey bar wholly altered, apart from some moulded ceiling-cornices. Entrance-hall to upper storeys, at the left-hand end, has moulded cornices and floor of patterned coloured tiles. Plain staircase, but at the top a half-glazed door with coloured glass and patterned glazing-bars. Included for group value. (Bideford Weekly Gazette: 23 Sept.: 1884-: P.5; Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1884-: 4 NOV, P.5; Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1888-: 14 AUG, P.5; Ridley: Illustrated Family Almanack: 1880-: P.33; Kelly's Directories: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: 1889-).
Listing NGR: SS4530326622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375841
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ridley, , Ridleys Illustrated Bideford Family Almanack, (1878-1880), 33
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 14 August, (1888), 5
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 23 September, (1884), 5
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 4 November, (1884), 5
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1889)
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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