Conservative Club
CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 23, BRIDGELAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025073
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 23, BRIDGELAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025073
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 23, BRIDGELAND STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 23, BRIDGELAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45377 26790
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 BRIDGELAND STREET 842-1/5/40 (South side) 08/11/49 No.23 Conservative Club
GV II
House, now club. Possibly late C18, remodelled early/mid C19. Solid rendered front. Slate roof. Rendered chimney on each gable-end. 4-square plan with central entrance-passage; rear centre stair compartment with curved, projecting rear wall; long rear wing to left, age uncertain; rear curtilage to right now built over with ballroom. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Ground storey has round-arched centre doorway with reeded architrave having a keyblock; inner jambs of architrave have attached pilasters incised with key-pattern. Inner porch with groined vault having a foliated boss at its apex; beyond this an inner doorway with 6-panelled door and pilasters like those at the front. Flanking the doorway 2 large segmental bow windows of 3 lights each; between the lights and at either side pilasters incised with key-pattern, these supporting an entablature with paired brackets to the cornice. Raised band between storeys. All windows have 6-paned sashes. Deeply-projecting eaves-cornice with paired brackets. INTERIOR: ground floor only inspected. At rear of entrance-passage a doorway with semi-circular fanlight having patterned glazing. Wooden geometrical staircase; slender turned balusters with square necking-pieces; shaped step-ends; handrail voluted at foot of stair. In the stair-compartment wall between ground and first floors 2 round-headed semi-circular niches; tall, round-arched, small-paned window. Front left-hand room has enriched cornice and chandelier-boss. Other ground-floor rooms completely altered in late C20. The first Bridge Feoffees' lease of this site was of 2 stables in 1701. The later documentation is confusing, but the earliest firm reference to a house is in an 1839 lease to Susannah Glynn, spinster. (Notes by Bideford Historic Buildings Survey).
Listing NGR: SS4537726790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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