133, High Street

No.133, High Street, Ilfracombe, is a shop with club premises above, likely dating from the mid-19th century, with a late-19th century shop front built out at the front of the ground storey. The front is rendered, with a left-hand side wall of stone rubble. The rear wall, visible from Meridian Place, is roughcast in the top storey, with the lower part obscured by an adjoining structure. The roof is slated, probably with asbestos slates, and features a multi-flue chimney on the right-hand side wall.

The building originally had a probably double-fronted, double-depth plan, although the first-floor plan has been significantly altered and now incorporates part of No.132 High Street. A narrow, open-well staircase is located at the rear of the centre of the building.

The exterior is three storeys high with a garret. The upper storeys have a single light window or glazed door to the left and a square, four-light bay window to the right. The ground-floor shop front has four cast-iron columns with enriched capitals, supporting an entablature that projects forward above each column. A wrought-iron balcony railing in a Rococo style, likely of late-19th century origin, sits atop the entablature. Two display windows flank the club entrance; the left-hand window retains much of its original character, with its lower section divided into two panes by a thick vertical glazing bar. To its right is a glazed shop door with a bracketed cornice, the brackets linked by small cinquefoiled arches. A dentilled cornice runs above the window and door, surmounted by a three-paned transom light. The upper storeys have nine-paned sash windows with horns in the second storey and six-paned sashes with horns in the third storey. A glazed twelve-paned door with a three-paned transom light is to the left of the second-storey window, above which is a six-paned sash without horns. The front is finished with a moulded eaves board. There are three gabled dormers with two-paned sashes and plain bargeboards. The rear wall has a four-paned sash to the right (east) and an eight-paned fixed sash in the centre, at the top storey.

The interior was only partially inspected. The staircase, rising to the second floor, has paired, square newels with flat moulded caps and a rounded handrail with balusters enclosed within boxing. The first-floor front room has been much altered, but retains two moulded plaster bosses on the ceiling.