28 High Street
Drawing and text by kind permission of Jim Bates.

 This sketch is taken from a photograph of about 1875 and shows the three stages of development in Ilfracombe High Street. On the right is the Old Moon Hotel, demolished in 1876 to make way for Pedlar’s.

To the left is one of the grandest of the late Victorian shops, erected when Ilfracombe’s prosperity was at its height. No 28 was built in the 1850’s in the Georgian style. A plain stuccoed building, with carefully proportioned windows and sensitive mouldings between the storeys made this one of the prettiest buildings in the High Street.