Bideford and District Angling Club, Attached Walls and Gatepiers
BIDEFORD AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200914
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bideford and District Angling Club, Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- BIDEFORD AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200914
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bideford and District Angling Club, Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDEFORD AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
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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:
- BIDEFORD AND DISTRICT ANGLING CLUB, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 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 45089 26533
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/116 (South East side) 04/02/91 Bideford and District Angling Club, attached walls and gatepiers
GV II
Formerly known as: Church Infants' School HIGH STREET. Infants' school, now club. 1845, with minor additions (mostly late C20). Coursed stone rubble in varying shades of brown; details in limestone, probably from Somerset. Slate roof. Stone-rubble chimneys with limestone caps. L-shaped plan with rear wing to right; at rear of front range a parallel range projecting slightly at left-hand end; smaller, lower blocks attached to left of front range and rear of wing. Single-storeyed with garret. Symmetrical front to High Street with gabled entrance-porch in centre flanked by 2 large windows on either side; 3 similar windows to Honestone Street with doorway in lean-to porch at right-hand end. Front porch has doorway with chamfered limestone surround having 4-centred arch and hood-mould; double plank-doors. On top of the gable a stone structure, possibly the base of a bell-cote. Windows flat-headed with chamfered limestone surround and hood-moulds; 3-paned glazing with margin-panes (glazing-bars apparently metal). End-gables and porch have stepped limestone copings and kneelers. Windows to Honestone Street match those at the front, but with later wooden mullions, transoms and glazing-bars. Left-hand window, which lies in the gable-end of the front range, has above it a narrow window with chamfered limestone surround. Windows to right (in the wing) have above them dormer gables with msall square windows in similar style, together with copings and kneelers like those on the front range. Doorway at right-hand end has chamfered limestone surround with flat head and hood-mould. INTERIOR not inspected. Walls of coursed stone rubble with cement-rendered copings, except that most of the High Street section, extending to the rounded corner with Honestone Street, has been rebuilt in coarser masonry. The original section to Honestone Street has square stone-rubble gate-piers with quoins and pyramidal caps of limestone. (Grant A: Book of Bideford: 1987-: P.104).
Listing NGR: SS4508926533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grant, A, The Book of Bideford, (1987), 104
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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