Torridge Lodge Including Gate Piers and Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. Detached house.
Torridge Lodge Including Gate Piers and Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- burning-rafter-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Torridge Lodge Including Gate Piers and Front Boundary Wall, Northam Road, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 450 271
- Coordinates
- 51.02253, -4.21034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torridge Lodge, including the gate piers and front boundary wall, is a detached house dating from the early 19th century. It features solid rendered walls and a hipped slate roof with rebuilt red-brick chimneys. The house faces the garden and has a single-depth plan that is two rooms wide with a through-passage. The right-hand room projects as a large bow and contains a staircase behind it, while the range behind the left-hand room fronts the road and is believed to incorporate an earlier house on the site.
The building is two storeys high, with a two-window range to the left and a three-window bow to the right, where the outer windows on each storey are blind. There is a raised band at the first-floor level and a deep eaves cornice. The round-arched doorway features a moulded architrave and a half-glazed door with two moulded panels below and four panes of glass above. To the left, there is a box-framed sash window with four over four panes. The bow has three-paned French windows with two-paned side sashes and a fanlight above. The upper-storey windows are two-paned sashes, while the bow has triple sashes. The street frontage has two-paned sash windows with a sill band in the upper storey and pilaster strips at each end. A pointed-arched window is located in the side wall to the right.
Inside, the left ground-floor room of the garden range features an enriched cornice and ceiling band, a foliated chandelier boss, and a painted stone chimneypiece with a bracketed mantelshelf. The right-hand room has similar chimneypieces and a moulded cornice. There is a dog-leg wooden stair with thin square balusters. To the right of the street frontage is a rendered wall approximately 1.8 meters long with chamfered coping. This wall swings back in two quadrants towards a pair of square gate piers topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Torridge Lodge Including Gate Piers and Front Boundary Wall receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
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