Northdown Hall (Part of Stella Maris School)
NORTHDOWN HALL (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200936
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Northdown Hall (Part of Stella Maris School)
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHDOWN HALL (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200936
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Northdown Hall (Part of Stella Maris School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHDOWN HALL (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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:
- NORTHDOWN HALL (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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 45118 26980
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 NORTHAM ROAD 842-1/5/207 (East side) 24/07/74 Northdown Hall (part of Stella Maris School) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHAM ROAD Northdown Hall at Stella Maris Convent)
GV II*
Large house, now part of school. Early C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimneys. Double-depth plan, 3 rooms wide, with with rear right service wing. On upper floor the front range has 4 rooms with a further room in the rear range to left of the staircase. 2 storeys with cellar; 4-window front facing north-east, the 2 middle windows set in a slight projection. Windows have barred sashes: 6 over 9 panes in ground storey, 6 over 6 panes above. Small top entablature with parapet. Matching sashes in upper-storey window of left gable-wall. Several others in rear wall, including the back stairs window with 12 over 12 panes. INTERIOR: well-preserved. Geometrical main stair with scrolled wrought-iron balusters on both sides. Mahogany handrails, voluted at the foot and surmounted by short iron lampstandards. Moulded nosings to treads; carved step-ends. Compartment has 6-panelled doors with panelled reveals in reeded architraves. Enriched cornices and ceiling-bands on both floors, the upper floor with a centre oval decorated with medallions and having a leaved chandelier boss. The 3 ground-floor front rooms have panelled shutters and reeded architraves to the windows. The middle and left-hand rooms have enriched cornices and ceiling-bands; also leaved chandelier bosses. Both have good white marble chimneypieces; that to left has vine tendrils and centre plaque with figures on the lintel, which is supported by caryatids; that in the middle has a surround carved with flowers and scrolls. The right-hand room is plainer, with only a moulded cornice. Upper-storey rooms have moulded cornices, panelled shutters and simple marble chimneypieces. Wooden back staircase has narrow open well, cut strings, thin square balusters, and handrail ramped up over column-newels. Charles Kingsley is believed to have written 'Westward Ho!' while he was tenant of Northdown Hall in 1854-5. (Rogers WH: Notes on Bideford (typescript): P.77, 78, 80).
Listing NGR: SS4511826980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375909
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Rogers, WH , Notes on Bideford,
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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