Bonded Store And Bond Cottage

BIDEFORD

SS4526 LOWER GUNSTONE 842-1/5/148 (South side) No.8 Bonded store and Bond Cottage

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Bonded store and cottage. Early or mid C19. Stone-rubble front. Rendered side-wall to right. Slate roof, gable-end on to street. Red-brick chimney on ridge between store and cottage. Store occupies street-frontage with side-passage (probably a later insertion) under right-hand side. Cottage forms rear wing to left. 3 storeys with basement; 3-window range. Central opening in each storey a loading-door. All openings have segmental red-brick arches. In centre of ground storey studded double plank doors with painted inscription WICKHAM & CO LTD. BIDEFORD No 1 BOND. In front of it 2 old steps, one stone, one wood. Blocked opening to left, old plank door to right. Beneath the blocked opening the head of a blocked basement window with segmental stone arch. In upper storeys the loading doorways have studded plank doors; above the top one a projecting wooden beam and an iron hook for a hoist. Windows have plain wood frames with iron bars and wooden louvres. Rear wall of cottage altered, but side-wall to passage has window with 8-paned sashes in a box-frame. INTERIOR not inspected, but passage under store has one end of a brick barrel-vault. The building is marked as owned by Thomas Wickham on Wood's 1842 Plan of Bideford.

Listing NGR: SS4527926667