Number 20 and the Old Town Hall
20, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293104
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Number 20 and the Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- 20, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/02873/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293104
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Number 20 and the Old Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD TOWN HALL, 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:
- 20, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET
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:
- SS5184647639
Details
SS5147
853-1/6/63
23/02/78
ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.20 and The Old Town Hall
GV
II
Former Town Hall, now a shop with vacant upper floors. 1861/2.
Bath stone ashlar. 3 storeys 3 bays, central bay narrower.
Italianate style. Facade articulated by two tiers of attached
Doric columns supporting imposts and cornices breaking forward
over columns and then a top tier of attached Ionic columns
with imposts supporting a cornice and blocking course, both
broken forward over columns. Rusticated ground floor of three
semi-circular arches to, left to right, shop, footway and
road. Each upper floor bay with a round-arched, architraved,
4-pane hornless sash. Passageways under the building vaulted;
the street divided from the footway by an arcade of 4 large
and 2 smaller round-headed arches with plain capitals. A
moulded cornice and hanging shop sign support indicate that
shops and windows, now blocked, once faced the footway. Rear
elevation rendered with two 15-pane and one 4:12:4 pane
tripartite hornless sash windows. INTERIOR not inspected. All
the listed buildings in High Street form a group.
Listing NGR: SS5184647639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390202
- 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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