Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BUTTGARDEN STREET
842-1/6/55 (East side)
No.6

GV II

House with shop. Early C19; shop front probably mid C19. Solid
rendered front walls; upper part of Buttgarden Street front
has traces of masonry markings. Hipped slate roof. Rendered
chimneys on left side-wall and rear wall, the first of these
with 3 spiked pots. 3 storeys with basement; 2-window range to
Buttgarden Street, 3 windows to Lower Meddon Street. Raised
band at sill-level in second storey of both fronts. Shop front
occupies the ground storey towards Buttgarden Street. 3-paned
display window with upright glazing-bars to right, canted on
left towards half-glazed double-doors with solid moulded lower
panels; moulded cornice on consoles above whole shop front.
Upper-storey windows in this front have keystones; 6-paned
sashes with horns. Return front has doorway in middle bay of
basement-storey; late C20 wood surround, half-glazed door.
Left-hand windows in ground, second and third storeys blind,
remainder glazed with barred sashes. 8-paned sashes in all 4
right-hand windows, 6-paned ones in the 3 middle windows;
left-hand basement window has 8-paned lower sash and 4-paned
upper sash, both with horns. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4533026338

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586293

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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