12, MARKET PLACE
12, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200921
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200921
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
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 45260 26530
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 MARKET PLACE 842-1/5/160 (North side) No.12
GV II
Former inn, later a restaurant and bakery, now shop. Probably early or mid C19, partly remodelled late C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof. Red-brick chimney with cream-brick bands and cap (probably including some terracotta) at each end of ridge; cap of left-hand chimney removed. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Ground storey has late C19 shop front with cart-entrance to left, the whole under a deeply-projecting wooden box-cornice. Shop front has 2 display windows on bases of green glazed brick (partly over-painted), canted in the centre towards a recessed glazed door with solid moulded panel at the bottom. Display windows have shafts with moulded capitals at the angles, these having small brackets rising to the window-tops. Shop door has a shaped wooden cresting along the base of a plain fanlight and there is a similar feature forming a fringe along the opening to the street. Behind the fringe is a panelled wooden ceiling. Doorstep has coloured mosaic with inscription: FRIENDSHIP'S CAFE. Cart-entrance has panelled triple-doors. Upper storeys flanked by pilaster-strips with horizontal channelling; cutting across them is a plain raised band above the second storey. Windows mostly have sashes with horns and margin-panes, those in second storey with a shaped and perforated fringe on brackets at the top of the opening. Third window from left in second storey has French windows, each leaf with 2 panes. Right-hand window takes the form of a canted wooden bay in second storey and a 2-light sash in third storey; former has entablature with cornice on paired brackets, the middle sashes having an extra upright glazing-bar in the centre. Deeply-projecting eaves-cornice on paired brackets. INTERIOR: shop has 2 fluted columns, probably of iron. In 1989, white marble chimneypiece on first floor; coloured glass in staircase window. Earlier features may by hidden under plaster. Included for group value. (Laithwaite M: Report to Devon County Council: 1989-: 9.11.89; Ridley: Ridley's Illustrated Bideford Family Almanack: 1878-1880; Wilson: Almanack for Bideford: 1888-1898; Kelly's Directories: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: 1919-1939).
Listing NGR: SS4526026530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375871
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Almanack For Bideford, (1888-1898)
Ridley, , Ridleys Illustrated Bideford Family Almanack, (1878-1880)
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1919-1939)
Other
M Laithwaite, 9 November, Report to Devon County Council, (1989)
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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