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Clovelly Cross Filling Station
Grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 91166
Petrol filling station and station attendants house. 1930 by architects Orphoot and Whiting of Bideford for Christine Hamlyn.
Note: This image does not show the attendants house, service rooms, or lavatories, which had not yet been built.
Brick walls, all roughcast and whitewashed, hipped and gabled slate roofs.
Plan: in 2 halves; to right the petrol filling area with a covered filling area (a sort of port-clochere) flanking service rooms and shop at rear; to left the station-attendants house (not built in this image); all in a loose Italianate style; "a model of its kind".
Exterior: covered filling area with a hipped roof with a bellcast, on front 2 narrow semi-circular headed archways which flank abroad central square-headed opening, emphasised imposts, underneath these arches stood the original petrol
pumps.
Broad square-head opening on each return through which vehicles enter; along the rear the shop and cash-register
area, this with a large replaced wood shop-front, flanking service rooms (not yet built in this image), hipped roofs, to left with a plank door (oil stove), to right lavatories; attached to the right the attendants house; single storey '