MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL

MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200925
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200925
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON 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 44947 26316

Details

BIDEFORD

SS42NW MEDDON STREET 842-1/1/175 (South side) 19/03/73 Main building, Bideford and Torridge Hospital (Formerly Listed as: MEDDON STREET Torridge Hospital)

GV II

Workhouse, now hospital. 1837-9. Solid rendered walls. Slate roofs, hipped and gabled. Plan: octagonal centre with 4 short projections coming off it diagonally. At rear of centre a long kitchen wing. 3-storeys. Plain except for porch with Doric pilasters and for triangular pediments on each of the 4 diagonal projections; original door with 2 flush panels at the bottom, the upper part now glazed. Mostly sash windows, some with 2 or 4 panes. Wings are 2-storeyed and entirely plain; re-windowed in mid/late C20. Kitchen wing single-storeyed with full-length lantern filled with 10-paned windows. INTERIOR: much altered, but retains an original wooden staircase with narrow open well, cut strings, thin square balusters and handrail ramped up over column newels. (Transactions of the Devonshire Association: Duncan AG: Bideford Poor and Poorhouses 1830 to 1840: 1918-: P.533).

Listing NGR: SS4494726316

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Legacy System number:: 375883
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1918), 533

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.