Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET
842-1/5/36 (South side)
No.17

GV II

House, now with shop. Probably 1690s, heightened and
remodelled in early C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof. Old
red-brick chimney on right gable-end. 3 storeys; 3-window
range. Ground floor altered with late C20 shop window; walling
at either side has moulded stringcourse level with
window-head. Upper-storey windows have plain sashes in
box-frames; second-storey windows, which line up with those of
No 18 (qv), have continued sills. Middle third-storey window
is blind. INTERIOR not inspected. This was Bideford Bridge
Trust property erected at an unknown date (probably the 1690s)
by John Cleverdon. The first surviving lease of 1740 is to
Philip Kent of Bideford, shipwright. Included for group value.
(Notes on Bideford using the material from N Devon Record
Office).

Listing NGR: SS4533226786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638035

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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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)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)