Main Building, Bideford And Torridge Hospital

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