Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HONESTONE STREET 842-1/6/142 (North side) 19/03/73 Nos.2 AND 4 (Formerly Listed as: HONESTONE STREET No.2)

GV II

Pair of houses with shop (now out of use). Early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Large late C20 red-brick chimney. 3 storeys; No 2 has 2-window fronts to Honestone Street and Market Place. Rounded corner with former shop front in ground storey. Latter has half-glazed double doors with moulded lower panels. Flanking them are 2 attached Tuscan columns supporting an entablature which continues across a display window at either side: 8-paned display window with canted sides to right, 6-paned one with iron grille at the top to left. Other windows have shaped cement surrounds and mostly 8-paned sashes; Honestone Street front has C20 casement in ground storey and the right-hand second and third-storey windows are blind. To left of ground-storey window the house doorway with shaped surround; door with 2 flush bottom panels, the upper part now glazed. Moulded board below the eaves on both fronts. No 4 has 1-window front matching that of No 2, with house doorway to right of ground-storey window. Latter contains a C20 wood casement; 8-paned sashes in upper-storey windows. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4522526469

External Links

• Wikidata Q26580621

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas