Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 THE STRAND
842-1/5/234 (South side)
19/03/73 No.4
Strand House including front area
railing and rear curtilage wall
(Formerly Listed as:
THE STRAND
No.4)

GV II

House. Probably early C19, partly remodelled in mid C19. Solid
rendered walls; ground storey of left side-wall to Ropewalk of
stone rubble with red-brick dressings. Slate roof in 2
parallel spans, that to south considerably the wider. 2
cream-brick chimneys.
2 storeys with garret. 1-window front facing west up The
Strand; masks gable-end of north range. No 5 (qv) overlaps
south range, although the former's quoins are in turn
overlapped by the balcony of No 4. Centre door with 6 moulded
panels in 2 rows of 3; brass knocker, name-plate, letterbox
and door-knob. At either side a sash-window with margin-panes.
In second storey a single window with 8-paned sashes.
In front of whole second storey a balcony with lily and
scroll-patterned iron railings. Supporting it are 3 iron
columns, the outer 2 with clustered shafts in quatrefoil
pattern. The balcony itself is divided into 3 bays, with a
fourth return-bay to left, by slender wooden columns
supporting a swept lean-to roof; open-work wooden fringe of
quatrefoils carried on segmental arches with anthemions in the
spandrels.
Shaped parapet swept up in the centre to a flat top with
ball-finial on a pedestal; ends of parapet swept up in the
opposite direction to resemble acroteria. In centre of parapet
a round-arched, semi-circular niche with raised surround. Left
side-wall has sash-windows, 2 with margin-panes, 1 with 8
panes per sash. Gabled dormer with 2-light wood casement, each
light with 2 panes.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Front area railing with spear-heads and scrolls. Rear
curtilage-wall mostly of stone rubble but with a patch of old
red brick, possibly late C17 or early C18.

Listing NGR: SS4533526883

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505019

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6