7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292986
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292986
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, 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:
- 7 AND 8, 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 45392 26578
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/101 (South side) 13/12/89 Nos.7 AND 8
GV II
Pair of houses with shops. Mid C19; early C20 shop front at No.7. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Red-brick chimney at right-hand end of ridge; another at rear of No 8. Shops flanking cart-entrance to rear courtyard; this is built up on all 4 sides, the rear range with a further cart-entrance, apparently leading to a second courtyard. 3 storeys. Each building of 2-window range. No 7 has a good Art Nouveau shop front with panelled flanking pilasters carrying elaborate paired brackets with shaped blocks on top; between the brackets is an entablature finished with a patterned iron cresting. Shop door recessed between 2 curved display windows, the larger right-hand window with a sinuous curve. Windows have chamfered black marble bases and are divided into large rectangular panes by glazing-bars, the uprights with lily-patterned tops. Glazed shop door with shaped solid panel at the bottom; tall fanlight above. The floor in front of the door is paved with coloured patterned mosaic having large red flowers at 2 opposing corners and, in the centre, the inscription GRIMES & CO. Ceiling above covered with mirrors in shaped wooden frames. Shop front at No 8 mainly late C20, but has early C20 shaped wooden blocks at either end of the fascia. Between the 2 shop fronts is the entrance to rear courtyard; above it an entablature with cornice supported at right-hand end by an enriched console. Upper-storey windows have moulded architraves and bracketed siils, the sills of the second-storey windows at No 8 now covered by the shop front; sashes with horns and upright glazing-bars forming margin-panes. wooden eaves cornice. Passage and front courtyard have old cobbled surface, partly repaired with concrete. Rear range has window with 6-paned sashes. Edward Grimes, gold and silversmith, watch and clockmaker, optician, appears to have moved into No 7 at the end of 1908. INTERIOR not inspected. (Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1888-: P.38; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1908-: P.81; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1909-: P.19, 34; Bideford and North Devon Weekly Gazette: 1908-: P.4).
Listing NGR: SS4538726568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1888), 38
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1908), 81
Wilson, , Wilsons Bideford Almanack, (1909), 19, 34
Bideford and North Devon Weekly Gazette in Bideford and North Devon Weekly Gazette, (1908), 4
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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