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

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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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