1, NORTH ROAD
1, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317868
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317868
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, NORTH 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:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holsworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 34362 03874
Details
In the entry for:
SS3403 HOLSWORTHY CP NORTH ROAD (East side)
16/37 No 3
GV II
the entry shall be amended to read:
SS3403 HOLSWORTHY CP NORTH ROAD (East side)
16/37 No 1
GV II
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SS3403 HOLSWORTHY CP NORTH ROAD (East side)
16/37 No 3
GV II
Shops with accommodation above. c1900, probably refronting earlier C19 range, internal alterations early-mid and late C20. Italianate style. Red brick, ashlar dressings, quoin red and yellow glazed tiles set in modillion cornice, decorative keystones, moulded stringcourses, half-hipped slate roof, gabled wing with decorative ridge tiles, brick stack right, roughcast left on facade, wing with tall brick stack centre right. Plan: shopping arcade behind double fronted shop front 2 bays right, loggia left with entrance to upper storey and wing at rear formerly containing bakery with accommodation above; the wing fronts the churchyard of St. Peter's Church (qv). Three storeys, 3 bays, paired roundheaded sash windows without glazing bars, decorative capitals continued as frieze, first floor late C20 wrought iron balcony flanked by seated lions, modillion cornice below partly concealed by shop fascias, decorative capitals to quoin pilasters dividing 3-bay loggia left from shop-front right. Loggia with 3 arched openings, similar detailin as window surrounds, 2 square-headed late C20 boarded doors; double-fronted shopfront with panelled soffit above late C20 glazed door. The capitals at ground floor level have a nice variety of motifs including flowers, foliage with birds and a man's face. Wing fronting churchyard: 2 storeys plus attic, 4:2 bays with chimney stack rising over gap between 2 gabled dormers undergoing restoration at time of survey (December 1987). 2 full-height narrow stairlight windows with marginal glazing bars and coloured lights, end bay right and penultimate bay left, sash windows with single vertical glazing bars, ground floor windows right undergoing restoration. Interior partially sighted: ground floor gutted to form mid C20 shopping arcade with applied half-timbering in the Tudor style; ground floor wing formerly a bakery, now a health centre and said to contain the ovens still in situ. First floor main block plasterwork friezes and ornamental ceiling rose in room occupying 2 bays right, both with contemporary chimneypieces. This is the best example of a group of buildings erected in this style in Holsworthy c1900, the majority of which have unfortunately been altered.
Listing NGR: SS3436203874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91941
- 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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