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Summary

House and veterinary surgery, built in 1900 by R.T. Hookway of Bideford. Three storeys, broad front with cart entrance to the right.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1200887: 18, BUTTGARDEN STREET

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 375779

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XIX - 1900 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of National Heritage, 19/04/1993, Bideford, 80 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV338459.

House and veterinary surgery, 1900, by R.T. Hookway of Bideford. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Three red-brick chimneys on ridge, 1 in centre and 1 at either end; the 2 right-hand chimneys have round pots. Three storeys. Broad front, of 2-window range. Windows are generally of 3 lights, the second-storey windows taking the form of flat-topped canted bays. To right of ground storey the pattern is varied to insert a cart-entrance with a single-light window to right of it; cart-entrance has 4-paned fanlight and recessed double plank-doors. At extreme left-hand end is a 6-panelled door with fanlight containing coloured leaded glass; patterned iron gate immediately in front of it, designed to be used when the door is left open. All ground-storey openings have segmental arches with moulded archivolts, these dropping down at either side and continued across the front as a bandcourse. Windows have sashes with horns, the window to right and the middle light of that to left with margin-panes. Bays to second storey have rounded bases and are finished with entablatures, the cornices continued across the front; blocking-course above, rising to a shallow point over the middle light. Sashes with horns, the middle lights with margin-panes. Third-storey windows have wooden mullions and transoms; heads and bandcourse matching those in the ground storey, but with the addition of keystones. Above each of them is a triangular gable with moulded bargeboards, breaking through the prominent eaves cornice; latter is coved at each end. Sills linked in all 3 storeys by broad bands. Square rainwater-pipes at either end of front and in centre, these having decorated clamps and heads. Frances Parsons, veterinary surgeon, was at this address in 1870. By 1902 he had been replaced by William Ascott, MRCVS, for the erection of whose 'dwelling house and horse repository in Buttgarden Street' R.T. Hookway & Sons, FIAS, had invited tenders in 1900. Occupies a prominent location at the entrance to a well-preserved 18th and 19th century street. Included for group value.

Wessex Archaeology, 2006, River Torridge Pipeline, Bideford, Devon: Rapid Archaeological Appraisal, 7 (Report - Assessment). SDV342246.

WA 20.

Torridge District Council, 2009, Bideford Conservation Area Appraisal, 17 (Report - non-specific). SDV351295.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4517 - Archaeological Appraisal of River Torridge Pipeline Routes, Bideford, Devon

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