Sloops Restaurant

Sloops Restaurant is a mid-19th century house with a shop, featuring a rear wing that dates back to the 17th century or earlier. The building has solid roughcast walls and slated roofs, except for the rear section of the wing, which has corrugated asbestos. There is a rendered chimney on the rear wall of the main range and the base of another on the rear gable of the wing, topped by a small 20th-century brick chimney. The front range is likely double-fronted and two rooms deep, while the rear wing to the right is one room wide and two rooms deep. The restaurant also occupies a former detached back block of 4 Allhalland Street.

The front range is three storeys high, and the rear wing is two storeys. The front facing Allhalland Street has a four-window range. The ground storey features a late 19th or early 20th-century fishmonger's shop front, which includes a pair of four-paned, removable display windows with tiled bases, flanking half-glazed double doors with a patterned iron grille above, and pilasters with an entablature and fluted consoles at either end. There is a cart entrance with a shaped surround at the left-hand end. The upper storeys have raised quoins, and the windows have shaped surrounds and two-paned sashes, except for the third second-storey window from the left, which is blind. The wing, now Sloops Restaurant, has a three-window range with six-paned sashes. The rear section appears taller, suggesting it originally had three storeys. Historical records from Wood's 1842 map of Bideford indicate that the wing once faced Hind Court before the buildings on the south side were demolished, opening it up to Bridge Street.

Inside, the shop retains its original white and coloured tiled interior. The Sloops Restaurant features a chamfered and stopped ceiling beam in the rear ground-floor room, while the remainder of the interior has not been inspected.