133, HIGH STREET
133, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208700
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 133, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 133, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208700
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 133, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 133, 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:
- 133, 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:
- SS5186047613
Details
SS5147
853-1/6/81
12/03/90
ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(South side)
No.133
GV
II
Shops with club premises above. Probably mid C19 with late C19
shop built out at the front of ground storey.
MATERIALS: solid rendered front; left side wall is of stone
rubble with remnants of plaster adhering to it. Rear wall
(visible from Meridian Place) is covered with roughcast in top
storey; lower part blocked by adjoining structure. Roof
slated, probably with asbestos slate. Rendered, multi-flue
chimney on right-hand side wall.
PLAN: Probably a double-fronted, double-depth plan originally,
although the first floor plan has been considerably altered
and now takes in the first floor of No.132 High Street (qv).
Narrow, open well staircase at rear of centre.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garret. Upper storeys have single
light window or glazed door to left and square, 4-light bay
window to right.
Shopfront in ground storey has 4 cast-iron columns with
enriched capitals, these supporting an entablature which
breaks forward above each column. Upon the entablature stands
a wrought-iron balcony-railing in Rococo style, probably of
late C19 date.
2 display windows flank the club entrance. Only the left-hand
one retains much of its original character, the lower section
being divided into 2 panes by a thick, vertical glazing bar.
To its right is the glazed shop door with bracketed cornice
above, the brackets linked by small cinquefoiled arches. Above
both window and door runs a dentilled cornice surmounted by a
3-paned transom light.
In the upper storeys the bay window has 9-paned sashes in the
second storey and 6-paned sashes in the third storey (all with
horns), the second storey finished with a moulded cornice.
To left of second storey is a glazed 12-paned door with
3-paned transom light. The window above it is a 6-paned sash
without horns. Front is finished with an eaves board moulded
on the lower edge. 3 gabled dormers with 2-paned sashes and
plain bargeboards.
Rear wall has in top storey a 4-paned sash to right (east) and
8-paned fixed sash in centre.
INTERIOR only partly inspected. Staircase, rising to second
floor, has paired, square newels with flat moulded caps;
rounded handrail, balusters boxed in. First floor front room
much altered, but has 2 moulded plaster bosses on ceiling.
Listing NGR: SS5186047613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390220
- 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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