Entrance Range to Bideford and Torridge Hospital
ENTRANCE RANGE TO BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209663
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Range to Bideford and Torridge Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE RANGE TO BIDEFORD AND TORRIDGE HOSPITAL, MEDDON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209663
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Range to Bideford and Torridge Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE RANGE TO 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:
- ENTRANCE RANGE TO 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 44953 26343
Details
BIDEFORD
SS42NW MEDDON STREET 842-1/1/270 (South side) 19/03/73 Entrance range to Bideford and Torridge Hospital (Formerly Listed as: MEDDON STREET Torridge Hospital)
GV II
Entrance block to workhouse, now hospital. 1837-9. Solid rendered walls with hipped slate roof. Planned parallel to street, but set back behind a forecourt, with covered carriage entrance to centre flanked at either side by a long, lower wing with cross-wing at either end, these with short projections at front and long ones to rear. Single-storeyed with tall round-arched carriage gate having horizontally-channelled piers, moulded archivolt with keystone and triangular pediment. Single-storeyed wing at either side with 5 openings to left and 4 to right, the 3 openings to left and the 2 end ones to rightset in short projections. All openings are round-headed with moulded archivolts springing from moulded imposts: except for doorway in fourth opening from left, they contain sash windows with glazing bars; the lower sashes in the 3 left-hand windows have been altered to contain 2 panes instead of 6. Door 4-panelled, the top 2 panels now glazed; fanlight with radial bars. Strips of horizontal channelling flank each section of the wings. Boxed eaves cornice. INTERIOR much altered.
Listing NGR: SS4495326343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375884
- 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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