8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292939
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292939
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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:
- 8 AND 9, NORTHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51671 47597
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 NORTHFIELD ROAD 853-1/6/105 (East side) Nos.8 AND 9
GV II
Pair of houses with shops in ground storey, part of a much altered terrace of similar date. Mid C19. MATERIALS: rendered fronts. No.8 has roof with C20 tiles; No.9 has tarred slates. Red brick chimney on each right-hand side wall, that of No.8 painted. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garrets. 2-window fronts. Ground storeys divided into 2 bays flanked and separated by Doric pilasters, except at the south end of No.8 where there is no pilaster. Entablature above, the frieze breaking forward over the pilasters. Doorways with ovolo-moulded surrounds in narrower left-hand bays; 4-panelled doors, moulded at No.8 flush at No.9. Shop windows in wider right-hand bays. That of No.8 is probably original, divided into 4 lights by wooden mullions; right-hand light canted, with glazed shop door adjoining. No.9 has slightly later shop window with recessed, glazed door in centre. Second-storey windows round-arched with moulded architraves, each containing 2 recessed lights having round arches springing from pilasters; centre pilaster is panelled and arches have moulded archivolts. Third-storey windows similar, except that all the arches are segmental. Lights in both upper storeys have 2-pane sashes. Box cornices at eaves-level. Each house has 2 gabled dormer windows with eaves projecting on moulded brackets; window openings round-arched with moulded architraves and plain sashes. INTERIORS not inspected. The houses do not appear on the 1840 tithe map. They are among the best surviving houses of their period in the shopping centre.
Listing NGR: SS5167147597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390245
- 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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