24, Bridgeland Street

House, now solicitors' offices. Probably 1692, almost wholly altered in the early or mid 19th century and around 1900. The building has solid walls, probably of brick with some stone; the front is clad with circa 1900 mathematical tiles, while the rear walls are rendered. The roofs are slated; the rear slope of the main range and the whole of the rear wing are tarred. Old red-brick chimneys with upper courses projecting to form entablatures are positioned at the right-hand end of the ridge and over the rear wall of the left-hand front room; a rendered chimney sits on the right wall of the wing.

The plan is 2 rooms wide with an entrance passage in the centre of the ground storey, which leads to a staircase in a lean-to (probably added in the 19th century or around 1900) extending across the whole rear of the building. A 2-rooms-deep wing of at least early or mid 18th-century date is positioned on the right. The building is 2 storeys with an attic in the main building, arranged in a 3-window range.

The front elevation features a doorway flanked by attached, plain-shafted Doric columns supporting an entablature, with a 6-panelled door in a moulded architrave. Above the entablature is a flattened bow window with triple sashes, raised strapwork on the base, 6-paned sashes in the centre, and 4-paned outer ones; the top entablature is surmounted by patterned iron cresting. The doorcase dates from the early or mid 19th century; the bow window is similar, though probably a slightly later addition. The outer windows are segmental-headed, with 8-paned sashes on the ground storey and 6-paned ones above. Raised bands run over each storey. The deep moulded eaves cornice is broken by 3 gabled dormers; the dormer windows have 6-paned Yorkshire sashes, plain stone shields in the gable apexes, and ball-finials on top. The rear wall has a staircase window with coloured glass. The wing mostly has 4-paned sashes with horns, probably of circa 1900, but the right-hand ground-storey window has an early or mid 19th-century triple sash with 8-paned sashes in the centre flanked by 2-paned sashes.

Interior detail is mostly early or mid 19th century, with some work probably of circa 1900, particularly the staircase, ground-floor front, and first-floor left-front chimneypieces. The inner front door is half-glazed with 2 solid moulded panels below and 4 glazed panels above; the surround is filled with coloured glass. The entrance-passage floor has coloured patterned tiles. The 2 ground-floor front rooms have 19th-century panelled shutters and moulded cornices; the right-hand room has a panelled dado, the left-hand room only the dado-rail. Carved wooden chimneypieces in circa 1700 style are present; that in the left-hand room retains its original cast-iron grate. A wooden open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels connects the floors. The first-floor left-hand front room has chimneypieces like that on the floor below. The right-hand front room has a single early or mid 19th-century marble chimneypiece. The first-floor front room of the wing has early or mid 18th-century window shutters with one-fillet ovolo-moulded, raised-and-fielded panels; a cupboard with ovolo-moulded panelled doors on H-hinges is also present. The left-hand attic room has a small 19th-century cast-iron chimneypiece and grate. In the backyard is a pump with an old iron pipe.

The building was Bideford Bridge Trust property, first leased to Samuel Curtise of Bideford, a mason, on 29 December 1692, when the house was described as "being built and well nigh finished". The dormers with ball-finials are shown in a photograph of Bridgeland Street dating from before 1869, but the mathematical tiling is more likely to date from about 1900. Adjacent properties numbered 25-26, which have the same tiling, were reconstructed by the architect G Malam Wilson between 1899 and 1901.