132, High Street

SS5147 853-1/6/80

ILFRACOMBE HIGH STREET (South side) No.132

GV II

Shop with living accommodation above; the club premises at No.133 (qv) now extend across the first floor. Late C19. MATERIALS: red brick dressed with stone and olive-green tiles. Slated roof. Red brick chimney on right-hand side wall with stepped upper courses forming a cap. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and garret. Flemish Renaissance style front, 1-window-wide. Later shopfront of good quality, with angle shafts to the display window and carved door head having patterned fanlight above; tall wooden entablature. Second storey has 4-light, mullioned and transomed bow window of stone with moulded sill and transom; deeply-projecting top cornice on decorated iron brackets, this being finished with a similar iron cresting. Lower lights have plain sashes; transom lights 8-paned. Third storey window has 2-lights with round arches springing from square pilasters; patterned glazing in the heads of the lights. Moulded sill with scrolls beneath; window-head flanked by giant fluted consoles rising to top entablature. Latter has dentilled cornice and deep tiled frieze. Pilasters in 2 stages support it at either side of the front, the second storey ones fluted and having carved brackets below and carved capitals above, both of eccentric design. Triangular dormer gable with flanking scrolls and shaped pediment, the round-arched window having moulded archivolt with exaggerated rustications; upper sash has patterned glazing in Geometric style. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5185347610