BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY

BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY, ROPE WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292425
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY
Statutory Address:: BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY, ROPE WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292425
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY
Statutory Address 1:: BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY, ROPE WALK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACKMORE'S DEPOSITORY, ROPE WALK

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 45428 26859

Details

BIDEFORD

SS4526 ROPE WALK 842-1/5/218 (South side) Blackmore's Depository

GV II

Collar factory; later furniture depository, now used as workshops, shops and keep-fit studio. Probably 1898 by RT Hookway of Bideford. Cream-brick front with dressings of red brick and a dark red stone resembling sandstone; rear wall of stone rubble. Hipped slate roof. Cream-brick chimney on centre of rear wall. Single-depth rectangular plan. 3 storeys; single-storeyed section at left-hand end. 22-window range, the single-storeyed section with in addition 5 windows flanked by a doorway to right and a cart-entrance to left. Main range designed with a strong vertical emphasis, the openings set in shallow recesses rising through all 3 storeys. Middle recess occupies a gabled projection with main entrance in ground storey and a loading door in each upper storey. The recesses have jambs and segmental arches of red brick, the arches with keystones; the windows have beneath them rectangular panels outlined in red brick. Main entrance has stone jambs and a round, cream-brick arch with keystone and flat stone archivolt, the arch enclosed within a rectangular stone frame. Double-doors, each with 6 heavily-moulded panels and an ornate iron door handle; fanlight with radial glazing-bars. On the archivolt is painted BLACKMORES' DEPOSITORY. Loading doors have jambs and segmental arches of red brick, the arches with keystones; double plank doors in upper part of opening, the lower part occupied by a 4-paned window. At the top of the third-storey loading-door a projecting iron girder with a pulley-wheel at the end. Openings within the flanking recesses (including 7 ground-storey doorways) have segmental arches of cream brick with keystones. Doorways contain plank doors with 3-paned fanlights. Windows have 3 mullioned-and-transomed lights. Simple red-brick eaves cornice composed of 2 stepped courses. On the centre of the ridge (visible from Kingsley Road) is a square cupola with ogee roof and weather-vane. At right-hand end is a single-storey lean-to masked by the bases of 2 recesses like those on the main front; it is not clear if these were part of an extension later demolished, or one that was never completed. Single-storeyed section to left is a plainer version of the main range, the window-openings with segmental cream-brick arches, linked at springing and sill-levels by red-brick bands; windows have the same 3-light, mullioned-and-transomed frames. Doorway at right-hand end is similar, but with red-brick jambs; panelled double-doors, 3-paned fanlights. Cart-entrance to left has plain lintel, probably a girder cased in cement; double plank doors. INTERIOR not inspected, but former club photographs inside main entrance showed a staircase with thin square balusters (probably of iron) and a continuous wooden handrail. Kingpost-and-ridge roof-trusses. This building is marked as a collar factory on the 25in OS map of 1904. The site was previously used for rope-making. (Bideford Weekly Gazette: 11 Jan; Oct 5: 1898-1901; Wilson's Bideford Directory: 1898-1901; Kelly's Directories: Devonshire: 1918-1923).

Listing NGR: SS4542826859

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Legacy System number:: 375920
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilson, , Directory of Bideford, (1898-1901)
'Bideford Weekly Gazette' in 11 January, (1898)
'Bideford Weekly Gazette' in 5 October, (1901)
'Kellys Directory' in Devonshire, (1918-1923)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.