21, HIGH STREET
21, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292931
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292931
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, 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:
- 21, 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 45297 26584
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/106 (South side) 19/03/73 No.21
GV II
House with shops. Late C18, refronted mid C19. Front upper storeys of painted brick in Flemish bond; remainder rendered. Hipped slate roof. Red-brick chimney on left side-wall. 3 storeys; 3-window range with single-light in centre, double-light at either side. Ground storey has horizontally-channelled rendering. To right a pair of projecting segmental-arched openings with pilasters, keystones and top cornice, the latter supporting 3 scroll-buttresses; left-hand opening has 12-paned display window with iron grille of intersecting circles below; right-hand opening has half-glazed double-doors with flush lower panels. To left, 2 original doorways with canted bay window to left again. Second-storey windows have cement voussoirs and keystones. Both upper storeys have barred sashes in concealed frames: 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 panes above. Prominent moulded wooden eaves cornice. Return to Grenville Street of 2 storeys (rise in ground level) and 3-window range. At right-hand end a late C18 round-arched doorway flanked by fluted Doric pilasters supporting entablature; panelled reveals, the bottom panels flush; fanlight with radial bars. Windows have barred sashes in box-frames: 8 over 8 panes in centre of ground storey, 4 over 8 panes to left and centre of second storey, 3 over 6 panes to right. Left-hand ground-storey window has mid C19 sashes with margin-panes and horns. INTERIOR not inspected, but at rear of shop a round-arched doorway having a fanlight with intersecting glazing-bars forming Gothic arches.
Listing NGR: SS4529726580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375819
- 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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