The Lodge and Lower Lodge
The Lodge and Lower Lodge, Western Road, Crediton, EX17 3RD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197561
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge and Lower Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- The Lodge and Lower Lodge, Western Road, Crediton, EX17 3RD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197561
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge and Lower Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Lodge and Lower Lodge, Western Road, Crediton, EX17 3RD
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:
- The Lodge and Lower Lodge, Western Road, Crediton, EX17 3RD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 82094 00512
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/02/2018
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CREDITON
WESTERN ROAD (South side)
The Lodge and Lower Lodge
(Formerly listed as Western Lodge Hospital)
02/04/90
II
Former workhouse, later used as hospital, now subdivided into apartments. 1836 by Samuel Kempthorne of London (DRO) with later ancillary extensions. Flemish bond red brick; slate roofs with pedimented gable ends, deep eaves and lead rolls to ridges.
Plan: Symmetrical radial plan with three wings and main front range across the south end of the south wing.
Exterior: The main south-facing range is two storeys and basement. 3:3:3-bays, the more closely-spaced centre three bays breaks forward and has pediment containing plaque, the inscription painted over. Central doorway (converted to window) with a moulded architrave and pediment on console brackets, wide bands at ground floor and first floor sill level. C19 twelve-pane sashes with flat rubbed brick arches and small basement windows at ground level. At either end of the front are single-storey and basement two-window wings with hipped roofs, which are probably part of the original design. Behind the front range are the three taller radiating wings of three storeys, seven bays. Only the two north wings are relieved by a central projecting, pedimented bay; sashes with glazing bars, some replaced. At the end of the south wing, at the junction with the front range, a C20 stair tower rises above roof level. Later small accretions include a C20 laundry on the north side.
Interior: Much altered in the C20
Sampson Kempthorne had an office in Carlton Chambers, Regent Street, London. Although he is reputed to have designed many workhouses, few individual buildings can be attributed to him with certainty. A signed plan of the workhouse is in the Devon Record Office.
Listing NGR: SS8209400512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387133
- 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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