Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET
842-1/5/35 (South side)
No.16

GV II

Shop with accommodation above. c1890. Solid rendered front.
Slate roof with red ridge-tiles. Cream and red-brick chimney
at right end of ridge. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Ground
storey divided into 2 bays by thick pilasters supporting
entablature. Left-hand bay has good original shop front with 2
display windows curving inwards to recessed
three-quarter-glazed doors in centre; the windows are without
glazing-bars and have plinths of green tiles. To right,
4-panelled house-door. Second-storey windows have detached
pediments with architrave and frieze omitted; to left, over a
3-light window, a trianglar pediment, to right a shallow
segmental pediment. Third storey has a moulded stringcourse
rising to form hood-moulds over the windows. Plain sashes
throughout. Bracketed eaves-cornice. Downpipe with decorated
clamps and rainwater-head. INTERIOR not inspected.
This is part of a curved row of shops and flats comprising
15-16 Bridgeland Street and 39-41 Mill Street (not included).
It occupies an important site at the west entrance to
Bridgeland Street. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS4532526790

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571852

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)