44, HIGH STREET
44, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380020
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 44, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 44, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380020
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 44, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44, 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:
- 44, 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:
- SS5167947564
Details
SS 51 47
853-1/6/10001
ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
No. 44
II
Former gas company offices. 1934-5; by Allen T. Hussell, for the Ilfracombe Gas Company. Red brick with Portland stone dressings.
PLAN: Corner site with entrance foyer and showrooms at the High Street front, and a range of offices behind facing Northfield Road.
Neo-Georgian and Moderne styles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Neo-Georgian font block with recessed corners, and 1-bay front and right-hand return elevations; tall ground floor of stone with large windows and corner doorway with moulded architrave and cartouche and arms above with inscription; tall first floor windows in moulded architraves with cornices, and stone cornice on consoles; stringcourses, recessed corners, and stone cornice and blocking course above; metal window frames. At rear facing Northfield Road, a lower 2-storey and basement range in the Moderne style, recessed first floor, the end bays projecting with corner windows, and rounded corner on left. Small windows to left and right with balconnettes.
INTERIOR: Showroom/foyer has moulded circular ceiling with glazed light fittings, and corridor with stepped moulded architraves, leading to polished stone staircase with solid balustrade; boardroom on first floor with banded rustication, corner piers and lit from ceiling lantern; ground floor office with polished stone chimneypiece; back staircase with iron balustrade.
Listing NGR: SS5167947564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479492
- 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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