Description

BIDEFORD

SS42NE NORTHAM ROAD
842-1/2/208 (East side)
19/03/73 Torridge Lodge including gate piers
and front boundary wall
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHAM ROAD
Torridge Lodge)

GV II

Detached house. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate
roof. Rebuilt red-brick chimneys. House fronts garden.
Single-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with through-passage;
right-hand room projects as a large bow and has staircase
behind it; range behind left-hand room fronts road and is
believed to incorporate an earlier house on the site.
2 storeys; 2-window range to left and 3-window bow to right,
the outer windows in each storey blind. Raised band at
first-floor level. Deep eaves cornice. Round-arched doorway
with moulded architrave; half-glazed door with 2 moulded
panels below and 4 panes of glass above. Box-framed
sash-window to left with 4 over 4 panes. Bow has 3-paned
French windows with 2-paned side-sashes and fanlight.
Upper-storey windows have 2-paned sashes; triple sashes in the
bow. Street frontage has 2-paned sash-windows with sill band
in upper storey. Pilaster strip at each end. Pointed-arched
window in side wall to right.
INTERIOR: left ground-floor room of garden range has enriched
cornice and ceiling-band; foliated chandelier boss; painted
stone chimneypiece with bracketed mantelshelf. Right-hand room
has similar chimneypieces; moulded cornice. Dog-leg wooden
stair with thin square balusters.
To right of street frontage is a rendered wall approx 1.8m
long with chamfered coping. To right the wall swings back in 2
quadrants towards a pair of square gate-piers with pyramidal
caps.

Listing NGR: SS4507827121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496696

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover