Bideford And District Angling Club, Attached Walls And Gatepiers

The Bideford and District Angling Club, together with associated walls and gatepiers, was originally an infants' school built in 1845, with later additions primarily in the late 20th century. It’s constructed of coursed stone rubble in varying shades of brown, with limestone details likely from Somerset. The roof is slate, and the chimneys have limestone caps. The building follows an L-shaped plan, with a rear wing to the right and a parallel range projecting slightly at the left-hand end, alongside smaller, lower blocks attached to the left of the front range and rear wing. It is a single-storeyed building with a garret.

The symmetrical front facade facing High Street features a gabled entrance porch positioned centrally, flanked by two large windows on either side. A further three windows and a lean-to porch with a doorway are present on Honestone Street. The porch doorway has a chamfered limestone surround featuring a four-centred arch and hood mould, with double plank doors. A stone structure sits atop the porch gable, possibly the base of a former bell-cote. The windows have flat-headed surrounds, also in chamfered limestone, with hood moulds and three-paned glazing with margin panes held by metal glazing-bars. The end gables and porch are finished with stepped limestone copings and kneelers. The windows along Honestone Street are similar, but incorporate later wooden mullions, transoms and glazing-bars. A small, narrow window is set above the left-hand gable-end window on the front range, also with a chamfered limestone surround. Dormer gables with small square windows, similarly styled and featuring copings and kneelers, are positioned above the windows in the wing. The doorway at the right-hand end has a chamfered limestone surround with a flat head and hood mould. The interior has not been inspected.

The walls are of coursed stone rubble with cement-rendered copings, although the section along High Street, extending to the rounded corner with Honestone Street, has been rebuilt with coarser masonry. The original section along Honestone Street features square stone-rubble gatepiers with quoins and pyramidal limestone caps.