Main Building, Bideford and Torridge Hospital
MAIN BUILDING, BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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