Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGE STREET
842-1/6/14 (South side)
08/11/49 No.1
Royal Mail Public House (part)

GV II

Public House. Early C17, remodelled externally in mid C19.
Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimney on
rear wall (visible from churchyard). 3 storeys. 3-window main
front to Church Walk with raised band above ground storey. All
windows in ground storey boarded up. At right-hand end C19
double doors with 2 moulded panels to each leaf. Box-framed
sash-windows in upper storeys, the outer second-storey sashes
with margin-panes. No openings in Bridge Street front, but
raised band continues round.
INTERIOR not inspected, but description by WH Rogers refers to
early C17 broad-rib ceiling divided by inserted partitions:
'on the walls of a bedroom are the arms of Marwood of Marwood,
a chevron between 3 goats heads caboshed, horned or'.
(Rogers W H: Notes on Bideford: P.76).

Listing NGR: SS4539026472

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26683330

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  For the Record
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)