18, MARKET PLACE
18, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209590
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209590
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4530226505
Details
SS4526
842-1/5/163
BIDEFORD
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
No.18
GV
II
Shop with living accommodation above. Late C19. Red-brick
front with painted cement or stone detail; there may be bands
of patterned and coloured tiling under the paint. Slate roof.
Red-brick chimney at rear. Classical style.
3 storeys with garret; 3-window range, the middle windows set
in a projection which rises above eaves-level, forming a
dormer gable with triangular pediment.
Shop front in ground storey with house-door to left. Above it
an entablature flanked by large fluted consoles carrying
shaped blocks. Second storey has a plain 3-light window in
centre with plain lintel and moulded cornice above, these
forming the pedestal for a pair of giant pilasters supporting
the pediment. Third-storey middle window has eared architrave
and panelled apron. Window in dormer-gable is segmental-headed
with scrolled keystone; 4 wood-mullioned casements with 2
transom-lights, each of 6 panes, sill continued to reach the
flanking pilasters. Outer windows in second storey have eared
architraves, buttresses at the foor; moulded cornices,
positioned to allow for a non-existant frieze. Corresponding
windows in third storey plain, but with moulded sills and
shaped aprons.
Plain painted bands (possibly tiled originally) link
window-heads in both upper storeys. Prominent moulded eaves
cornice broken in centre by the dormer gable; each end-section
supported by fluted brackets.
Second and third-storey windows have sashes with horns, those
in third storey with a single upright glazing-bar.
Rear wall, clearly visible from Bridge Street, is rendered;
windows mostly C20, but at left of each of second and third
storeys is box-framed sash window, the lower sashes 6-paned,
the upper ones 3-paned. In front of them are 2 lower brick
buildings and 1 of wood. INTERIOR not inspected. A bold design
which forms a prominent feature of the Market Place area.
Listing NGR: SS4530226505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375874
- 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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