17 AND 18, THE STRAND
17 AND 18, THE STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282940
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 17 AND 18, THE STRAND
- Statutory Address:
- 17 AND 18, THE STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282940
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 17 AND 18, THE STRAND
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17 AND 18, 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:
- 17 AND 18, 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 45232 26891
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 THE STRAND 842-1/5/237 (South side) 19/03/73 Nos.17 AND 18
GV II
Pair of houses behind a single facade. Early C19, restored 1990. Solid rendered fronts. Slate roofs. 2 rendered chimneys on left gable-wall; 1 visible on front slope of right gable-wall. Each house of double-depth plan, one room wide. 3 storeys; 3-window range, the middle ones blind. In centre of ground storey paired doors with a single doorcase having pilasters and entablature; doors 4-panelled with panelled reveals. Windows have moulded architraves, except those to the left of each storey (No 17), which have flat architraves. 6-paned sashes, except for the ground-storey and lower second-storey ones at No 17, which are plain. Whole front flanked by giant Ionic pilasters, each with a section of architrave and frieze above them; boxed eaves cornice across whole front. Raised band at first-floor level. 7-paned round-arched stair window with margin-panes in left side-wall. INTERIOR inspected at No 18 only: wooden staircase with very narrow open well; thin square balusters, cut strings, column-newels. Ground and first-floor front rooms have richly decorated ceiling-bands, the first-floor rooms also with a large enriched chandelier-boss.
Listing NGR: SS4523226891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375938
- 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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