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Summary

An early 19th century house.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1200937: TORRIDGE LODGE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II*): 419424

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XIX - 1801 AD to 1860 AD (Between))

Full description

Timms, S. C., 1977-1981, Bideford Development Control Consultations (Un-published). SDV346164.

Visited 2nd May 1979 by Pam Egeland. Proposal for reinstatement of existing arched window in south side.

English Heritage, 2011, Historic Houses Register (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346128.

Torridge Lodge including gate piers and front boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: Northam Road, Torridge Lodge).
Detached house. Early 19th century. 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 thepbow. 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.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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