York House (Part of Stella Maris School)
YORK HOUSE (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- York House (Part of Stella Maris School)
- Statutory Address:
- YORK HOUSE (PART OF STELLA MARIS SCHOOL), NORTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- York House (Part of Stella Maris School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORK HOUSE (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:
- YORK HOUSE (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 45090 27026
Details
BIDEFORD
SS42NE NORTHAM ROAD 842-1/2/209 (East side) 19/03/73 York House (part of Stella Maris School)
GV II
Detached house, now part of school. Probably late C18, altered in mid C19; C20 section added at each end. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan, 3 rooms wide; range facing Northam Road has main staircase and entrance-hall right of centre, and back staircase at left-hand end; passages lead out to the garden from both staircases. 3 storeys; garden front of 5-window range, the first, third and fourth windows from the left taking the form of 3-storeyed canted bays. Doorways in place of right-hand ground-storey window and second window from left. Former is round-arched with attached Doric column and entablature; panelled door with 4 lower panels in the shape of a St Andrew's Cross below, and 4 oblong panels above; patterned fanlight, panelled reveals. Bays have 2-paned sashes with a single horizontal glazing-bar in the ground storey each with an entablature at first-floor level. Upper-storey windows have 6-paned sashes. Deep bracketed eaves cornice. Northam Road front has sashes with margin-panes. Also 2 round-arched stair windows with moulded archivolts and keystones, the former springing from a moulded stringcourse; samll-paned glazing. Raised quoins at left-hand end. Bracketed eaves cornice. INTERIOR: geometrical wooden main staircase with slender turned balusters having square necking-pieces; handrail voluted at the foot on both sides; shaped step-ends; from first floor the stair turns into an ordinary open-well. Rooms much altered, although there are moulded cornices on the ground floor.
Listing NGR: SS4509027026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375910
- 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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