Description

BIDEFORD

SS42NW MEDDON STREET
842-1/1/175 (South side)
19/03/73 Main building, Bideford and Torridge
Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
MEDDON STREET
Torridge Hospital)

GV II

Workhouse, now hospital. 1837-9. Solid rendered walls. Slate
roofs, hipped and gabled. Plan: octagonal centre with 4 short
projections coming off it diagonally. At rear of centre a long
kitchen wing.
3-storeys. Plain except for porch with Doric pilasters and for
triangular pediments on each of the 4 diagonal projections;
original door with 2 flush panels at the bottom, the upper
part now glazed. Mostly sash windows, some with 2 or 4 panes.
Wings are 2-storeyed and entirely plain; re-windowed in
mid/late C20. Kitchen wing single-storeyed with full-length
lantern filled with 10-paned windows. INTERIOR: much altered,
but retains an original wooden staircase with narrow open
well, cut strings, thin square balusters and handrail ramped
up over column newels.
(Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Duncan AG:
Bideford Poor and Poorhouses 1830 to 1840: 1918-: P.533).

Listing NGR: SS4494726316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496686

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]