Description

SS5147
853-1/6/69

ILFRACOMBE
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.32

GV
II

Shop, originally with living accommodation upstairs. 1881, by
WH Gould of Ilfracombe. High Victorian style.
MATERIALS: yellow brick with dressings of red brick and stone;
left side wall slate hung. Front roof not visible from street;
rear wing is slated. Red brick chimney on left-side wall.
PLAN: original plan 1-room-wide and 3-rooms-deep, with
staircase behind front room; ground storey differed in having
a deep shop with stair at rear, rising from first floor only.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 2-windows-wide. Ground storey altered in
late C20.
Upper storeys have pilaster strip to left, red brick bands
between the storeys, and sunk red brick panels between and
flanking the windows, those in the third and fourth storeys
painted.
Second storey has a single wide (original) canted bay window
of wood with moulded shafts between the lights, the shafts
supporting brackets with develop into round arches; above
these is a moulded eaves-cornice and slated pent roof.
Third storey windows have 4-centred arches of red brick and
stone, together with continued, moulded imposts of stone.
Fourth storey windows have flat arches of matching materials,
these linked by a band of red brick, immediately below the
modillioned eaves-cornice.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Nos 26-27 and Nos 29-32 (qv) make a good mid-to-late Victorian
group, mostly later C19 commercial architecture of a
remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size. Included
for group value. Plans, sections and elevation drawing of this
building (then No.27 High Street) were submitted to Ilfracombe
Local Board of Health on behalf of Mr Hussell in 1881.
((microfilm): Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning
Register and File: N Devon DC Planning Dept.).

Listing NGR: SS5177547602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503695

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)