31, HIGH STREET
31, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203031
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 31, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-05-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/05710/18
- Rights:
- © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203031
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 31, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31, 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:
- 31, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5178147605
Details
SS5147
853-1/6/68
ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.31
GV
II
Shop with living accommodation above. Mid to late C19. Gothick
design. MATERIALS: yellow brick with dressings of stone, red
and black brick. Roof not visible from street. Red brick
chimney on left side wall.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 3-windows-wide, the middle window
narrower than the rest. Good shopfront, probably a late C19
insertion. Flanking wooden pilasters, the left-hand one with a
pair of small bulbous Ionic columns on top; entablature above
with blindcase incorporated. Display window has slender shafts
with enriched scrolled capitals. Glazed shop door to right
with shaped panels; scrolled pediment above set against the
base of a patterned fanlight. Across the whole shopfront,
beneath the entablature, is a fringe of scrollwork.
Upper storeys flanked by pilaster strips; bands of red and
black brick at each floor level, sunk red brick panels between
and at either side of the windows. Outer windows have
4-centred arches of red and black brick and stone, the middle
windows similar but round-arched. Moulded stone impost-bands.
All windows have plain sashes. Modillioned eaves-cornice.
INTERIOR not inspected, except that the shop has a ceiling of
moulded papier-mache. On the reveal of the house entrance, to
the left of the shopfront, is a painted-over plate with the
name of Allen T Hussell, architect and surveyor.
HISTORY: Hussell was a native of Ilfracombe (b.1870); he was
articled to WH Gould and had his own practice from the late
1890s. In 1909 he published a book, North Devon Churches, and
wrote a series of articles on Ilfracombe architecture in the
Ilfracombe Chronicle, May-Sept. 1937. He was also a composer
of popular songs, especially just after the First World War,
and a pianist. In 1912 he was engaged to play on a cruise ship
to the Amazon. His architectural works included Westway (1913)
at the entrance to Torrs Park and, in the 1890s, some of the
houses in Broad Park Avenue.
Part of a good roup of mostly later C19 commercial
architecture of a remarkably ambitious scale for a town of
this size.
(Lamplugh L: Ilfracombe, 1984: 7; 125-7; Transactions of the
Devonshire Association: 1946-: 45; Ilfracombe Chronicle,
28.5.1937: 3, 8; Devon Record Office: Devon Record Office:
R2458 add. No 1540; Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning
File: North Devon DC Planning Department: Ilfracombe Local
Board of Health Planning File: (on microfilm)).
Listing NGR: SS5178147605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lamplugh, L, Ilfracombe, (1984), 7, 125-7
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1946), 45
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 28 May, (1937), 3,8
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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