110, 111 AND 112, HIGH STREET

The building at 110, 111, and 112 High Street in Ilfracombe is a group of shops with living accommodation above, dating from the early 1880s and designed by WC Oliver of Barnstaple. The construction is primarily cream-coloured brick with stone dressings and bands of purplish-red brick. The roof is not visible from the street.

The building is double-depth and presents a three-window façade, with each window consisting of three lights. The ground-floor shopfronts have been considerably altered, with the exception of the central shop (No. 111), which retains a display window divided by a vertical glazing bar, a band of green and brown tiles below, and a recessed entrance with a glazed door. Above the display window and door is a frieze of coloured glass panels, topped by an enriched cornice. This cornice likely continues across No. 110, potentially concealing the original frieze behind a 20th-century fascia. A 6-panelled door is located to the left of No. 110. A carved gabled block, originally terminating the cornice, survives at the left-hand end of the shop at No. 112, and may have a similar frieze concealed behind a 20th-century fascia. An iron sign bracket, with a twisted shaft and fleur-de-lis finials, is set to project above the shopfront at No. 110.

The windows of the second floor have stone surrounds with trefoil-headed arches springing from columns, blind window heads carved with flowers, and an impost band of carved stone and red and blue brick. The third-floor windows have plain sashes with segmental stone arches to the lights, with outer arches of purplish-red brick; the impost band mirrors that of the second floor, and a moulded stone stringcourse runs along sill level. A similar stringcourse is found on the fourth floor, where the windows have flat stone arches. The piers between the fourth-floor window lights have been rebuilt in red brick. An enriched wood and stone top cornice features imitation machicolation. All windows are fitted with plain sashes with horns. The rear courtyard walls are slate-hung. A ground-floor rear window with coloured glass is present at No. 111.

The interior of No. 111 was inspected and features a wooden staircase with turned balusters, extending through all four floors. A carved wooden chimneypiece is in a ground-floor room of the rear range. Several 4-panelled doors are also present.