Ford House
FORD HOUSE, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1209723
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Statutory Address:
- FORD HOUSE, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1209723
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD HOUSE, NEW ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORD HOUSE, NEW 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:
- SS4487325921
Details
BIDEFORD
SS42NW NEW ROAD
842-1/1/200 (West side (off))
19/03/73 Ford House
GV II
Large detached house. Probably built between 1844-9. Rendered
stone-rubble walls. Hipped roof covered with corrugated iron.
Rendered brick chimney. 2 storeys; 4-window range, the 2
middle windows in a slight projection. 3 windows in left
side-wall, 2 in right side-wall. Ground-storey windows filled
with concrete block, those above boarded. Deep eaves cornice
with paired brackets. Marks of a former verandah against front
wall. INTERIOR not inspected. No building is shown on this
site on the Bideford Tithe map of 1841. Capt John Pike, R.N.,
is shown here in White's 1850 Directory of Devonshire, but the
house is not shown in Pigot and Co's directory of 1844. Pike,
who already owned the site in 1841, is shown elsewhere in
1844.
Listing NGR: SS4487325921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1850)
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