Heavitree Arms
HEAVITREE ARMS, 16, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200926
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Heavitree Arms
- Statutory Address:
- HEAVITREE ARMS, 16, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200926
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Heavitree Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEAVITREE ARMS, 16, MILL 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:
- HEAVITREE ARMS, 16, MILL 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 45348 26692
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 MILL STREET 842-1/5/183 (South West side) No.16 Heavitree Arms
GV II
Public House. Early or mid C19 (or basically perhaps earlier), remodelled mid-to-late C19. Solid rendered fronts. Tarred slate roofs. Old red-brick chimney to right of Mill Street range, and 2 more on ridge of rear wing along Lower Gunstone; all but the rear-most chimney on the wing have rebuilt caps. Late C19 or early C20 red-brick chimney on right side-wall of Mill Street range and another on front roof-slope to Lower Gunstone, above the front wall. 2 storeys; 2-window range to Mill Street, 5 to Lower Gunstone. On the splayed corner, bar-entrance and flanking windows of considerable quality. Entrance has flanking pilasters that rise to an entablature extending over the windows at either side. Three-quarter-glazed double-doors, the bottom parts with solid moulded panels, the upper parts with 3 panes each; at either side an inward-facing pilaster, and above a heavily-moulded panelled lintel. Windows are of 4 mullioned-and-transomed lights, flanked by panelled pilasters and with patterned bases of red and cream brick. Upper lights are round-headed, the spandrels pierced with trefoils; inscribed in patterned frosted glass are the words: AGENT FOR BAKERS HEAVITREE ALES (to Mill Street) and: WINES SPIRITS BOTTLED ALES (to Lower Gunstone). Entablature has enriched panelled, bracketed blocks flanking the 3 sections of cornice above entrance and windows, and beneath the cornice are brackets of an unusual design linked by bead-and-reel mouldings. The window above the entrance has flanking pilasters with paired brackets at the top, beneath the eaves-cornice; 2-light wood casement in the lower part, each light of 2 panes, with 2-paned fixed sash above. Two 6-panelled doors in Lower Gunstone front, that to right with 2 flush panels at the bottom and lion-head knocker above, that to left with the 4 upper panels now glazed. Windows mostly have sashes in recessed box-frames. Mill Street front has 2-paned sashes to right of ground storey and 6-paned ones above; blind window to left of upper storey. Lower Gunstone front has plain sashes, with horns in left-hand ground-storey windows; second ground-storey window from left has C20 wood frame. Boxed wooden eaves-cornice round both fronts. INTERIOR not inspected, apart from the (altered) bars.
Listing NGR: SS4534826692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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