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Summary

House, including The Old Tobacco House to the left, later converted into a mirrored pair. Early 18th century, superficially remodelled in late 18th or early 19th century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1052297: NO 10 INCLUDING THE OLD TOBACCO HOUSE TO LEFT

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 375772

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVIII to XIX - 1701 AD to 1850 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of National Heritage, 19/04/1993, Bideford, 73 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV338459.

House, including The Old Tobacco House to left, later converted into a mirrored pair. Early 18th century, superficially remodelled in the late 18th or early 19th century. Solid rendered front. Slate roof. Old red-brick chimney on right side-wall. Number 10 (the right-hand house), of double-depth plan, one room wide with short rear wing to right; ground storey has through-passage to left, leading to the rear staircase which lies behind left-hand end of front room. Three storeys; 3-window range front common to both houses, with paired doorways in place of middle ground-storey window. Doorways flanked and separated by 3 fluted Doric pilasters supporting a single entablature and have recessed 6-panelled doors with matching reveals, the lowest row of panels flush, approached by 2 stone steps; narrow 3-paned fanlights. Ground and second-storey windows have raised eared surrounds with slightly pointed tops; third-storey windows have plain raised surrounds. All windows have 2-paned sashes with a single upright glazing-bar; the sashes in the left-hand ground-storey window, in all 3 second-storey windows and in the middle third-storey windows have horns. Whole front has rusticated quoins. Rear windows have barred sashes.
Interior of number 10 has early 18th century wooden dog-leg staircase rising to third storey: first flight has rebuilt late 18th or early 19th century balustrade with thin square balusters, remainder original with turned balusters, square newels with ball-finials and pendants, moulded handrail. Ground-floor front room has dentilled box-cornice and (on right wall) one-fillet ovolo-moulded raised-and-fielded panelling with 2 round-arched cupboards having shaped shelves: all early 18th century. Mid 19th century wood chimneypiece with ornate iron grate. Rear room has late 18th century cupboards with panelled doors. First-floor front room has an early 18th century bolection-moulded wood chimneypiece and some sunk bolection panelling. Rear room has fireplace with ovolo-moulded architrave, cornice and iron grate. Other rooms also have 19th century iron grates. Old Tobacco House not inspected; it is said to have originated as a warehouse. The left-hand door carries the late 20th century inscription "The Old Tobacco House".

Rushton, N., 2006, River Torridge Pipeline, Bideford, Devon: Rapid Archaeological Appraisal, 7, 13 (Report - Interim). SDV342463.

WA 28.

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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