Bank House
BANK HOUSE, 68, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282925
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 68, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282925
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, 68, 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:
- BANK HOUSE, 68, HIGH 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 45282 26611
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/128 (North side) 19/03/73 No.68 Bank House (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Old Bank House)
GV II
Office building with shops; formerly a bank. Mid C19, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Solid rendered front. Roof not visible from street. Rendered chimney on right gable-end. Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, with rear stair compartment to centre and rear left wing. 3 storeys with basement; symmetrical 5-window range. Segmental-headed centre doorway with inset columns having foliated capitals; enriched imposts; moulded archivolt with large carved keystone. Shop front at either side, probably mid/late C19. Upper-storey windows segmental-headed with bracketed sills and moulded architraves; plain sashes. Flanking the whole front a pair of horizontally-channelled pilasters rising to a moulded top cornice. Tall parapet, rising in centre over raised inscription BANK HOUSE. INTERIOR: early C18-style wooden staircase with turned balusters and broad flat handrail; probably not original, certainly with C19 or C20 features. First-floor rooms have C19 moulded cornices; good grey marble chimneypiece with original round-arched iron grate in rear right-hand room. Second floor has good mid/late C19 chimneypieces with iron grates. Back staircase, now leading up from first floor of No 67, has re-set early C18 balustrade with turned balusters and heavy moulded handrail; opposing balustrade is C19 in roughly similar style. Directories of 1870 and 1878 show the West of England and South Wales District Bank at this address; bank-vaults are said to survive in the basement. The site is not marked as a bank on the 1st-edition 25in OS Map, surveyed in 1886.
Listing NGR: SS4528626621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375839
- 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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