63, FORE STREET
63, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293219
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 63, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 63, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293219
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 63, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 63, FORE 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:
- 63, FORE 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:
- SS 52138 47739
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5247 FORE STREET 853-1/7/41 (North side) No.63
GV II
Former county police station, now a restaurant. Dated 1873, by HW Farley of Exeter. MATERIALS: local New Road squared stone rubble with dressings of Forest of Dean stone. Hipped slated roof. Rendered chimneys on side walls. Italiante style with Gothic details. PLAN: the original plans show a double-fronted, double-depth plan. The ground storey was to have a central entrance passage with charge room to left and kitchen to right; 2 cells at the rear with stair to right. 5 bedrooms on upper floor. In basement another kitchen, back kitchen, pantry cellar, coal store, 2 wash houses, 2 privys (one a 2-seater) and an ash pit; there was a yard at the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement. Symmetrical 3-window front. Centre doorway with segmental arch and hood mould; 4-panelled door. BEVERLEY in gilt letters on fanlight (it was originally to have had POLICE STATION in this position); date 1873 carved above. 2-light window on either side and in corresponding positions in second storey; single light window above the door. Ground storey windows have chamfered and stopped mullions, these being replaced in second storey by columns with enriched capitals. Prominent bracketed stone eaves cornice. INTERIOR not inspected. The police station was erected by R Thorn and J Hicks of Ilfracombe, builders, at a cost of »1,018. 10s. 0d. The roof was to be covered with Delabole or Welsh slate and the interior lit by gas. (Devon Record Office, Police Station Plans, B13/5/4; Hussell AT: Ilfracombe Chronicle, 20.8.1937: 8).
Listing NGR: SS5212947749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 20 August, (1937), 8
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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