Entrance Range To Bideford And Torridge Hospital

BIDEFORD

SS42NW MEDDON STREET 842-1/1/270 (South side) 19/03/73 Entrance range to Bideford and Torridge Hospital (Formerly Listed as: MEDDON STREET Torridge Hospital)

GV II

Entrance block to workhouse, now hospital. 1837-9. Solid rendered walls with hipped slate roof. Planned parallel to street, but set back behind a forecourt, with covered carriage entrance to centre flanked at either side by a long, lower wing with cross-wing at either end, these with short projections at front and long ones to rear. Single-storeyed with tall round-arched carriage gate having horizontally-channelled piers, moulded archivolt with keystone and triangular pediment. Single-storeyed wing at either side with 5 openings to left and 4 to right, the 3 openings to left and the 2 end ones to rightset in short projections. All openings are round-headed with moulded archivolts springing from moulded imposts: except for doorway in fourth opening from left, they contain sash windows with glazing bars; the lower sashes in the 3 left-hand windows have been altered to contain 2 panes instead of 6. Door 4-panelled, the top 2 panels now glazed; fanlight with radial bars. Strips of horizontal channelling flank each section of the wings. Boxed eaves cornice. INTERIOR much altered.

Listing NGR: SS4495326343