Numbers 1-5 Including Front Garden Walls and Gateposts

NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS, 1-5, MONTPELIER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203041
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 1-5 Including Front Garden Walls and Gateposts
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS, 1-5, MONTPELIER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203041
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 1-5 Including Front Garden Walls and Gateposts
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS, 1-5, MONTPELIER ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS, 1-5, MONTPELIER ROAD

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 52047 47602

Details

ILFRACOMBE

853-1/7/100 MONTPELIER ROAD NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS

Shall be replaced by:- MONTPELIER ROAD NUMBERS 1-5 INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPOSTS



14.3.94 II Terrace of 5 houses. Mid C19. Solid, rendered walls. Slated roofs. Red brick chimneys with stone quoins; round chimney pots (those to Nos 3 and 4 rebuilt 1990). 2 storeys with garrets. 2-window fronts, Nos 2-3 and Nos 4-5 designed as mirrored pairs. Rusticated ground storeys, rising to continued sills in second storey. To one side, round-arched doorway with raised, rusticated surround and triple keystone; some houses with 2-panelled doors. On the other side, wooden canted bay window with pent roof. 2 round-arched windows in second storey. Stepped boards below eaves. Gabled dormers (except at No.1) with round-arched windows. Windows replaced in late C20 at Nos. 3 and 4 (except for dormers) and in bay window at No.1. Remaining ground and second storey windows have sashes with 1 horizontal glazing bar each. Dormer windows have plain sashes. INTERIORS: Nos. 2, 3 and 4 inspected internally and are generally complete with staircases, panelled doors and architraves, panelled cupboard doors, chimneypieces and cornices. No. 2 has a fitted wooden dresser in the kitchen. No. 3 has lost the attic balustrade of the staircase and chimneypieces have been replaced in the mid-C20.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front garden walls of squared stone rubble with red brick copings survive at Nos 2 & 5. These houses have square stone gate piers with rounded tops, and there is a single pier of the same type at No.3. Gate pier at No.5 has ornate iron lampstandard on top, its lamp now missing.

Listing NGR: SS5204747602

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Legacy System number:
390237
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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