1-4 Causeway House

BIDEFORD

SS42NE NORTHAM ROAD 842-1/2/206 (East side) 19/03/73 1-4 (consecutive) Causeway House (Formerly Listed as: NORTHAM ROAD Causeway House)

GV II

Detached house, now divided into 4 flats. Early C19, with C20 addition facing road. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimneys; that on S side-wall has paired octagonal shafts with panelled sides. Double-depth plan, with low closet-wings at each end of the road-frontage. 2 storeys with single-storey closets. Garden front of 5-window range, the end windows set in slightly projecting pavilions with hipped roofs. Centre of ground storey has an Ionic order of 4 columns with Doric end-piers supporting an entablature; resembles a porch but is set directly against the wall-face. Doorway in centre (now blocked). French window at either side. Centre upper-storey window blind; sash-window at either side with 4 over 9 panes plus margin-panes. Pavilion windows have 6-paned sashes, except that the upper second-storey sashes have only 3 panes; the ground-storey windows have the outline of fomrer straight hood-moulds. Deep boxed eaves cornices, those over the pavilions with a greater projection and shaped brackets. Left (south) side wall has round-arched doorway with chamfered surround and keystone; 4-panelled door, the top 2 panels now glazed; patterned fanlight. Right side wall (visible from Meadowville Road) has upper-storey canted bay window with barred sashes and top cornice: 6 over 6 panes in centre, 4 over 4 panes at either side. Rear elevation facing Northam Road has gabled closet-wings, each having a round-arched window with 6-paned sashes; at either side paired Doric pilasters supporting a plain projection that must once have been an entablature. Gables have plain bargeboards. Centre occupied by a large late C20 addition. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS4506427164