132, HIGH STREET

132, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208688
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:
132, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
132, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208688
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:
132, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
132, 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
132, 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:
SS5185347610

Details

SS5147
853-1/6/80

ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(South side)
No.132

GV
II

Shop with living accommodation above; the club premises at
No.133 (qv) now extend across the first floor. Late C19.
MATERIALS: red brick dressed with stone and olive-green tiles.
Slated roof. Red brick chimney on right-hand side wall with
stepped upper courses forming a cap.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and garret. Flemish Renaissance style
front, 1-window-wide. Later shopfront of good quality, with
angle shafts to the display window and carved door head having
patterned fanlight above; tall wooden entablature.
Second storey has 4-light, mullioned and transomed bow window
of stone with moulded sill and transom; deeply-projecting top
cornice on decorated iron brackets, this being finished with a
similar iron cresting. Lower lights have plain sashes; transom
lights 8-paned.
Third storey window has 2-lights with round arches springing
from square pilasters; patterned glazing in the heads of the
lights.
Moulded sill with scrolls beneath; window-head flanked by
giant fluted consoles rising to top entablature. Latter has
dentilled cornice and deep tiled frieze.
Pilasters in 2 stages support it at either side of the front,
the second storey ones fluted and having carved brackets below
and carved capitals above, both of eccentric design.
Triangular dormer gable with flanking scrolls and shaped
pediment, the round-arched window having moulded archivolt
with exaggerated rustications; upper sash has patterned
glazing in Geometric style.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5185347610

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
390219
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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