11, Bridge Street

BIDEFORD

SS4526 BRIDGE STREET 842-1/6/18 (North side) 19/03/73 No.11

GV II

House with shop. Late C18 or early C19; mid C19 shop-front; late C19 workshops at rear. Rendered solid walls; workshops of exposed stone rubble and brick. Slate roofs; workshops partly covered with corrugated iron or asbestos. Late C19 red brick chimney with spiked pots on right gable-end. Double-depth plan: large shop to left has entrance-passage to right of it, leading to rear staircase, small room to right of that again. Left rear wing contains former workshops, latterly part of No 18 Market Place (q.v.). 2 storeys with basement; 3-window range. Shop front and house-door flanked and separated by pilasters supporting an entablature: 2 display windows, each of 6 panes, canted in centre towards recessed door; paired house-doors to right, each 6-panelled with matching reveals; bottom panels generally flush, except for left-hand door where all the panels are moulded and carry a raised moulding in the centre. To right is a box-framed sash-window with margin-panes; below it, where the ground falls away, a C20 basement door. Barred sashes in concealed frames in upper storey: 8 over 8 panes in the centre. 10 over 10 on the outside. INTERIOR inspected in the ground storey and basement only. Main house has wooden staircase with shaped step-ends, thin square balusters and fluted column-newel. Rear wing has 2 late C19 staircases with slender turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SS4531226494