82, HIGH STREET
82, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200913
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 82, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 82, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200913
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 82, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 82, 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:
- 82, 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 45395 26605
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/137 (North side) No.82
GV II
Former Kingsley Hotel, now shop with accommodation above. c1897. By RT Hookway of Bideford. Solid rendered front with wooden bay windows. Slate mansard roof. Red-brick chimney on each end-wall, the upper courses projecting to form entablatures. 4 storeys with garret; 3-window range. Mid or late C20 shop front. Outer windows in the 3 upper storeys take the form of canted bays, those in the second storey foreshortened to accommodate the entablature of the shop front below. Moulded cornices above each storey, these being continued across the front; top storey also has a panelled frieze. Bays have sashes with horns (altered in second storey); middle sashes have margin-panes, those in the upper sashes forming round arches. Middle windows have triangular pediments rising out of the continued cornices; flanked by fluted pilasters in second and fourth storeys. Front finished with a parapet, on the centre of which stands a large dormer gable with fluted pilasters and segmental pediment; at either side a fluted pedestal carrying an urn. Flanking it are 2 round-headed dormers with moulded archivolts and keyblocks; sashes with margin-panes, those in the right-hand dormer forming round arches. Rear wall (visible from New Street) has a large slate-hung projection, possibly containing a staircase. The building forms an important part of the townscape, particularly when looking up the High Street from The Quay. Included for group value. (Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1888-: P.9; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1895-: P.9; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1898-: P.19; Kelly's Directories: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: 1906-1910: PP.78, 80; Grant A: The Book of Bideford: 1987-: P.14; Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1897-: 26 OCT, 4).
Listing NGR: SS4539126602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grant, A, The Book of Bideford, (1987), 14
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1888), 9
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1895), 9
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1898), 19
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 26 October, (1897), 4
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1906-1910), 78, 80
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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