146, HIGH STREET
146, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203035
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 146, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 146, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203035
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 146, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 146, 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:
- 146, 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:
- SS 51945 47658
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 HIGH STREET 853-1/6/82 (South side) No.146
II
House and shop. Probably built in 1890s. MATERIALS: rendered front. Solid right-hand side-wall visible from alley, covered with slate-hanging slated mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garret. 1-window wide. Good shopfront; display windows with angle-shafts supporting decorated brackets. Recessed shop door in centre; shell-carved, open pediment above. To right of shopfront a panel of blue and white tiles inscribed W H ANDREW PURVEYOR & FAMILY BUTCHER ESTD. 1855. Deep wood canopy on shaped brackets above whole ground storey. Second and third storeys have wooden, canted bay window in centre, finished in each storey with a bracketed cornice having quatrefoils between the brackets. Panelled base to second-storey window; slated pent roof to window in third storey. Sash windows with panels of coloured glass above them; upper sashes have glazing bars forming margin-panes. Dentilled top cornice broken by large, 2-light dormer window with flat top; this has sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash. To right, set back and spanning the alley, is a rendered structure containing a 12-light sash window. INTERIOR not inspected. The building forms a group with Nos 145 (The Victoria) & No.147 (qv). WH Andrew, butcher, appears at this address (then 130 High Street) in Kelly's Directory of Devonshire between 1883 & 1906, but not in 1910. (Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: 1883-1906).
Listing NGR: SS5194547658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1883)
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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