29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 30, 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:
- 29 AND 30, 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 51786 47609
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 HIGH STREET 853-1/6/67 (North side) Nos.29 AND 30
GV II
Shop with accommodation over. Mid to late C19. Stone rubble with details in dressed stone. Roof not visible from street. Base of red brick chimney on right side wall. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide. Ground storey has arcade of 8 octagonal cast-iron columns, partly fluted and with enriched capitals; arched above boxed in, except for 2 shouldered arches at right-hand end. Rusticated pilaster at each end, finished with a tall, oblong block inlaid with coloured tiles; foliated bracket below, ball finial on top. 2 shopfronts behind the columns, well preserved, although with some parts boxed in. Display window to right has transom light of coloured, leaded glass; shop to left has glazed door with 2 solid moulded panels at the bottom and a panelled right-hand reveal. 4-panelled house door at left-hand end. Upper storeys have raised quoins and bands between storeys. Windows of 2-lights with eccentrically tall shouldered arches; centre piers have plain capitals. Plain sashes. Bracketed top cornice and parapet. INTERIOR: ground-floor completely altered. The building is part of a good group comprising Nos 26-32 High Street (qqv), mostly later C19 commercial architecture of a remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size. (Horridge GK: Ilfracombe A Pictorial Record: Plates 25 & 26).
Listing NGR: SS5178647609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Horridge, GK, Ilfracombe A Pictorial Record, (1986)
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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