Strand House Including Front Area Railings and Rear Curtilage Wall
STRAND HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND REAR CURTILAGE WALL, 4, THE STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209974
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Strand House Including Front Area Railings and Rear Curtilage Wall
- Statutory Address:
- STRAND HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND REAR CURTILAGE WALL, 4, THE STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209974
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Strand House Including Front Area Railings and Rear Curtilage Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRAND HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND REAR CURTILAGE WALL, 4, THE STRAND
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:
- STRAND HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND REAR CURTILAGE WALL, 4, THE STRAND
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:
- SS 45335 26883
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 THE STRAND 842-1/5/234 (South side) 19/03/73 No.4 Strand House including front area railing and rear curtilage wall (Formerly Listed as: THE STRAND No.4)
GV II
House. Probably early C19, partly remodelled in mid C19. Solid rendered walls; ground storey of left side-wall to Ropewalk of stone rubble with red-brick dressings. Slate roof in 2 parallel spans, that to south considerably the wider. 2 cream-brick chimneys. 2 storeys with garret. 1-window front facing west up The Strand; masks gable-end of north range. No 5 (qv) overlaps south range, although the former's quoins are in turn overlapped by the balcony of No 4. Centre door with 6 moulded panels in 2 rows of 3; brass knocker, name-plate, letterbox and door-knob. At either side a sash-window with margin-panes. In second storey a single window with 8-paned sashes. In front of whole second storey a balcony with lily and scroll-patterned iron railings. Supporting it are 3 iron columns, the outer 2 with clustered shafts in quatrefoil pattern. The balcony itself is divided into 3 bays, with a fourth return-bay to left, by slender wooden columns supporting a swept lean-to roof; open-work wooden fringe of quatrefoils carried on segmental arches with anthemions in the spandrels. Shaped parapet swept up in the centre to a flat top with ball-finial on a pedestal; ends of parapet swept up in the opposite direction to resemble acroteria. In centre of parapet a round-arched, semi-circular niche with raised surround. Left side-wall has sash-windows, 2 with margin-panes, 1 with 8 panes per sash. Gabled dormer with 2-light wood casement, each light with 2 panes. INTERIOR not inspected. Front area railing with spear-heads and scrolls. Rear curtilage-wall mostly of stone rubble but with a patch of old red brick, possibly late C17 or early C18.
Listing NGR: SS4533526883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375935
- 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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