Royal Mail Public House (Part)
ROYAL MAIL PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 1, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280117
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Mail Public House (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MAIL PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 1, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280117
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Mail Public House (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MAIL PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 1, BRIDGE 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:
- ROYAL MAIL PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 1, BRIDGE STREET
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 45407 26469
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 BRIDGE STREET 842-1/6/14 (South side) 08/11/49 No.1 Royal Mail Public House (part)
GV II
Public House. Early C17, remodelled externally in mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimney on rear wall (visible from churchyard). 3 storeys. 3-window main front to Church Walk with raised band above ground storey. All windows in ground storey boarded up. At right-hand end C19 double doors with 2 moulded panels to each leaf. Box-framed sash-windows in upper storeys, the outer second-storey sashes with margin-panes. No openings in Bridge Street front, but raised band continues round. INTERIOR not inspected, but description by WH Rogers refers to early C17 broad-rib ceiling divided by inserted partitions: 'on the walls of a bedroom are the arms of Marwood of Marwood, a chevron between 3 goats heads caboshed, horned or'. (Rogers W H: Notes on Bideford: P.76).
Listing NGR: SS4539026472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Rogers, WH , Notes on Bideford,
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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