29, Bridgeland Street

This is a three-storey house on Bridgeland Street, Bideford, dating from the 1690s. It has undergone alterations and enlargement in the early 18th century and was refronted in the mid-19th century. The front is rendered with a slate roof, and it features later 20th-century red brick chimneys on the party walls with the neighbouring properties. The building has a double-fronted, double-depth plan with a rear wing to the left, and a staircase compartment centrally located at the rear of the main building.

The front facade has a four-window arrangement, with a doorway replacing the second ground-floor window from the right. A mid to late 19th-century shop front is on the left side of the ground floor, aligned under a continuous moulded cornice supported by consoles at the doorway and shop front. The shop front features two display windows with patterned iron grilles at the top, canted towards a glazed door with a solid shaped panel. The original six-panelled house door is retained. The windows on the right side of the ground floor and in the top storey are flat-headed, while those on the second floor are segmental-headed, all with moulded architraves and bracketed sills. They are sash windows with horns. An eaves cornice is bracketed. Rear elevations have been altered, though the rear wing retains some old barred sashes.

The interior ground floor has been altered, except for an original open-well staircase extending to the garret. This staircase has closed, pulvinated strings, stout turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels with turned pendants, the flat caps of which are 20th-century replacements. The two left-hand first-floor rooms have late 17th or early 18th-century box cornices. A rear room has a 2-panelled door and a late 17th-century cupboard with sunk bolection-moulded panelled doors on ornate H-hinges. The front room on the right has a 2-panelled door and a wooden chimneypiece, probably from the early 18th century, featuring a moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice. The front room in the wing also has a moulded cornice, likely from the early 18th century. The garret contains heavy, cased roof timbers, which are believed to be original. A front room on the left has a door with two vertical moulded panels, probably late 17th century, but with 18th-century strap hinges. The right-hand front room has a mid to late 19th-century cast-iron chimneypiece. The rear wing includes a similar two-panelled door, with the same type of hinges, but with narrower panels, dating from the 18th century. Exposed old roof timbers are present, with lighter scantling than those in the main building. The house originally belonged to the Bideford Bridge Trust and was probably built in the early 1690s, alongside other properties on Bridgeland Street.