32, HIGH STREET
32, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 32, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, 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:
- 32, 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:
- SS5177547602
Details
SS5147
853-1/6/69
ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.32
GV
II
Shop, originally with living accommodation upstairs. 1881, by
WH Gould of Ilfracombe. High Victorian style.
MATERIALS: yellow brick with dressings of red brick and stone;
left side wall slate hung. Front roof not visible from street;
rear wing is slated. Red brick chimney on left-side wall.
PLAN: original plan 1-room-wide and 3-rooms-deep, with
staircase behind front room; ground storey differed in having
a deep shop with stair at rear, rising from first floor only.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 2-windows-wide. Ground storey altered in
late C20.
Upper storeys have pilaster strip to left, red brick bands
between the storeys, and sunk red brick panels between and
flanking the windows, those in the third and fourth storeys
painted.
Second storey has a single wide (original) canted bay window
of wood with moulded shafts between the lights, the shafts
supporting brackets with develop into round arches; above
these is a moulded eaves-cornice and slated pent roof.
Third storey windows have 4-centred arches of red brick and
stone, together with continued, moulded imposts of stone.
Fourth storey windows have flat arches of matching materials,
these linked by a band of red brick, immediately below the
modillioned eaves-cornice.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Nos 26-27 and Nos 29-32 (qv) make a good mid-to-late Victorian
group, mostly later C19 commercial architecture of a
remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size. Included
for group value. Plans, sections and elevation drawing of this
building (then No.27 High Street) were submitted to Ilfracombe
Local Board of Health on behalf of Mr Hussell in 1881.
((microfilm): Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning
Register and File: N Devon DC Planning Dept.).
Listing NGR: SS5177547602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390208
- 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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