8 And 9, Northfield Road

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 NORTHFIELD ROAD 853-1/6/105 (East side) Nos.8 AND 9

GV II

Pair of houses with shops in ground storey, part of a much altered terrace of similar date. Mid C19. MATERIALS: rendered fronts. No.8 has roof with C20 tiles; No.9 has tarred slates. Red brick chimney on each right-hand side wall, that of No.8 painted. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garrets. 2-window fronts. Ground storeys divided into 2 bays flanked and separated by Doric pilasters, except at the south end of No.8 where there is no pilaster. Entablature above, the frieze breaking forward over the pilasters. Doorways with ovolo-moulded surrounds in narrower left-hand bays; 4-panelled doors, moulded at No.8 flush at No.9. Shop windows in wider right-hand bays. That of No.8 is probably original, divided into 4 lights by wooden mullions; right-hand light canted, with glazed shop door adjoining. No.9 has slightly later shop window with recessed, glazed door in centre. Second-storey windows round-arched with moulded architraves, each containing 2 recessed lights having round arches springing from pilasters; centre pilaster is panelled and arches have moulded archivolts. Third-storey windows similar, except that all the arches are segmental. Lights in both upper storeys have 2-pane sashes. Box cornices at eaves-level. Each house has 2 gabled dormer windows with eaves projecting on moulded brackets; window openings round-arched with moulded architraves and plain sashes. INTERIORS not inspected. The houses do not appear on the 1840 tithe map. They are among the best surviving houses of their period in the shopping centre.

Listing NGR: SS5167147597