Torridge Lodge Including Gate Piers And Front Boundary Wall

BIDEFORD

SS42NE NORTHAM ROAD 842-1/2/208 (East side) 19/03/73 Torridge Lodge including gate piers and front boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: NORTHAM ROAD Torridge Lodge)

GV II

Detached house. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rebuilt red-brick chimneys. House fronts garden. Single-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with through-passage; right-hand room projects as a large bow and has staircase behind it; range behind left-hand room fronts road and is believed to incorporate an earlier house on the site. 2 storeys; 2-window range to left and 3-window bow to right, the outer windows in each storey blind. Raised band at first-floor level. Deep eaves cornice. Round-arched doorway with moulded architrave; half-glazed door with 2 moulded panels below and 4 panes of glass above. Box-framed sash-window to left with 4 over 4 panes. Bow has 3-paned French windows with 2-paned side-sashes and fanlight. Upper-storey windows have 2-paned sashes; triple sashes in the bow. Street frontage has 2-paned sash-windows with sill band in upper storey. Pilaster strip at each end. Pointed-arched window in side wall to right. INTERIOR: left ground-floor room of garden range has enriched cornice and ceiling-band; foliated chandelier boss; painted stone chimneypiece with bracketed mantelshelf. Right-hand room has similar chimneypieces; moulded cornice. Dog-leg wooden stair with thin square balusters. To right of street frontage is a rendered wall approx 1.8m long with chamfered coping. To right the wall swings back in 2 quadrants towards a pair of square gate-piers with pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SS4507827121