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Summary

Pair of mid 19th century houses with shops.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1292986: 7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 375814

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XIX to XX - 1840 AD to 1950 AD (Between))

Full description

Timms, S. C., 1977-1981, Bideford Development Control Consultations (Un-published). SDV346164.

7a visited 7th May 1981 by Simon Timms. Proposed conversion of stores to showroom, offices and surgery at rear. Applicant says it is the rear of the former Bush Inn.
7 visited 27th June 1984 by Simon Timms. Vacant property with good early 20th century shop windows and entrance. Proposed replacement shopfront.

English Heritage, 2011, Historic Houses Register (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346128.

Numbers 7 and 8, High Street.
Pair of houses with shops. Mid 19th century; early 20th century shop front at Number7. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof. Red-brick chimney at right-hand end of ridge; another at rear of Number 8. Shops flanking cart-entrance to rear courtyard; this is built up on all 4 sides, the rear range with a further cart-entrance, apparently leading to a second courtyard.
3 storeys. Each building of 2-window range. Number 7 has a good Art Nouveau shop front with panelled flanking pilasters carrying elaborate paired brackets with shaped blocks on top; between the brackets is an entablature finished with a patterned iron cresting.
Shop door recessed between 2 curved display windows, the larger right-hand window with a sinuous curve. Windows have chamfered black marble bases and are divided into large rectangular panes by glazing-bars, the uprights with lily-patterned tops. Glazed shop door with shaped solid panel at the bottom; tall fanlight above.
The floor in front of the door is paved with coloured patterned mosaic having large red flowers at 2 opposing corners and, in the centre, the inscription GRIMES & CO. Ceiling above covered with mirrors in shaped wooden frames. Shop front at Number 8 mainly late 20th century, but has early 20th century shaped wooden blocks at either end of the fascia. Between the 2 shop fronts is the entrance to rear courtyard; above it an entablature with cornice supported at right-hand end by an enriched console.
Upper-storey windows have moulded architraves and bracketed siils, the sills of the second-storey windows at No 8 now covered by the shop front; sashes with horns and upright glazing-bars forming margin-panes. wooden eaves cornice. Passage and front courtyard have old cobbled surface, partly repaired with concrete.
Rear range has window with 6-paned sashes. Edward Grimes, gold and silversmith, watch and clockmaker, optician, appears to have moved into Number 7 at the end of 1908.
Interior not inspected.

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

Chappell, S., 2013, Notes of Site Visit, High Street, Bideford (Un-published). SDV355723.

Photographs and plans showing the High Street frontage, front arch, and the second archway and vaulted workroom above.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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