Hampton Terrace

BIDEFORD

SS4526 NEW ROAD 842-1/6/195 (West side) 08/11/49 1, 2 AND 3 Hampton Terrace

GV II

Also known as: Riverside Flats NEW ROAD. Terrace of 3 houses, now forming part of a larger complex known as Riverside Flats. Mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Pitched slated roofs at right-angles to street, now concealed by parapet. 3 storeys. Each house of 2-window range with round-arched doorway in place of right-hand second-storey window. Doorways are reached by a continuous balcony extending to the right across the unlisted part of Riverside Flats, where there are steps down to the street. Ground storey has 2 round-arched and 1 segmental-headed doorway; 2 late C19 window, each of 4 lights with segmental arches springing from moulded shafts. Upper storeys are flanked and separated by pilasters with moulded caps (the left-hand one now with a plain cap); above these a plain band and tall parapet. In second storey 6-panelled doors; triple-sashed windows, each sash with a single horizontal glazing-bar. Balcony has wrought-iron railings of a simple grid design, the centre of each section with a circle decorated with twisted motifs and braced to all 4 corners. 7 open-work uprights filled with circles and St Andrew's Crosses rise to support a pent-roof, which has a fringe of iron circles. Third-storey windows have 6-paned sashes. Rear elevations, visible from Marine Gardens, retain several windows with barred sashes. INTERIOR not inspected. The terrace is not shown on Wood's 1842 map of Bideford.

Listing NGR: SS4542526384