Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/101 (South side) 13/12/89 Nos.7 AND 8

GV II

Pair of houses with shops. Mid C19; early C20 shop front at No.7. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Red-brick chimney at right-hand end of ridge; another at rear of No 8. Shops flanking cart-entrance to rear courtyard; this is built up on all 4 sides, the rear range with a further cart-entrance, apparently leading to a second courtyard. 3 storeys. Each building of 2-window range. No 7 has a good Art Nouveau shop front with panelled flanking pilasters carrying elaborate paired brackets with shaped blocks on top; between the brackets is an entablature finished with a patterned iron cresting. Shop door recessed between 2 curved display windows, the larger right-hand window with a sinuous curve. Windows have chamfered black marble bases and are divided into large rectangular panes by glazing-bars, the uprights with lily-patterned tops. Glazed shop door with shaped solid panel at the bottom; tall fanlight above. The floor in front of the door is paved with coloured patterned mosaic having large red flowers at 2 opposing corners and, in the centre, the inscription GRIMES & CO. Ceiling above covered with mirrors in shaped wooden frames. Shop front at No 8 mainly late C20, but has early C20 shaped wooden blocks at either end of the fascia. Between the 2 shop fronts is the entrance to rear courtyard; above it an entablature with cornice supported at right-hand end by an enriched console. Upper-storey windows have moulded architraves and bracketed siils, the sills of the second-storey windows at No 8 now covered by the shop front; sashes with horns and upright glazing-bars forming margin-panes. wooden eaves cornice. Passage and front courtyard have old cobbled surface, partly repaired with concrete. Rear range has window with 6-paned sashes. Edward Grimes, gold and silversmith, watch and clockmaker, optician, appears to have moved into No 7 at the end of 1908. INTERIOR not inspected. (Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1888-: P.38; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1908-: P.81; Wilson's Bideford Almanack: 1909-: P.19, 34; Bideford and North Devon Weekly Gazette: 1908-: P.4).

Listing NGR: SS4538726568

External Links

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version