Nos 82-94 Moreton Cottages Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
NOS 82-94 MORETON COTTAGES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 82-94, MEDDON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200924
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 82-94 Moreton Cottages Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 82-94 MORETON COTTAGES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 82-94, MEDDON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200924
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 82-94 Moreton Cottages Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 82-94 MORETON COTTAGES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 82-94, MEDDON 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:
- NOS 82-94 MORETON COTTAGES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 82-94, MEDDON 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 45065 26368
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 MEDDON STREET 842-1/6/174 (North side) 01/04/92 Nos.82-94 (Even) Moreton Cottages including front garden wall and gate-piers
GV II
Block of 7 former almshouses built to a single design. 1857. Coursed stone rubble in varying shades of brown; painted dressed stone quoins. Slate roof with crested yellow ridge-tiles (some of the crests missing), replaced in some parts with similar red tiles; slates renewed at No 84 (probably in asbestos) and tarred at Nos 88 and 94, the latter 2 having lost all their ridge-tiles. Fish-scale slating on pent-roofs over ground-storey bays and canopy. Rendered chimneys on the ridge between Nos 84-86, 86-88, 88-90, and 90-92, and on the end-walls at Nos 82 and 94. Chimneys on ridge retain some good 6-sided pots with moulded caps. Picturesque Domestic Revival style. 2 storeys; 7-window range. Middle and end houses are developed as gabled projections, while at the others the upper-storey windows rise into small gables set above eaves-level. Between the storeys is a massive coved canopy over the ground-storey openings. Ground-storey windows take the form of canted wooden bays with 6-paned 2-light wood casements at the front and 3-paned lights at the sides. Doorways and upper-storey windows have flat arches with rough stone voussoirs. Most of the doors have been renewed in late C20, but there are old plank doors at Nos 92 and 94, and in an additional, disused doorway on the left-hand side at No 88; the door at No 94 has non-functional strap-hinges, probably a later addition. Upper-storey windows have 2-light wood casements, each light of 3 panes with margin-panes. Above the window in the centre projection is a blank square panel; the windows in the end-projections have moulded circular panels in the same position and those under the small gables have trefoiled panels. All 7 gables have moulded bargeboards. INTERIOR not inspected. Front garden wall is of stone rubble matching that of the cottages. Flat slatestone coping; 3 flat buttresses, symmetrically placed. At each end is a pair of stone-rubble gate-piers with steeply-pitched gabled caps of a lighter stone resembling limestone. These were the new Buck Almshouses. Foundation stone laid in June 1857. An attractive composition, reflecting the influence of early Domestic Revival architects. (Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1857-: 23.6.1857, P.1).
Listing NGR: SS4506526368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 23 June, (1857), 1
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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