Bridge House

Bridge House, Jericho Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240701
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Bridge House
Statutory Address:: Bridge House, Jericho Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240701
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Bridge House
Statutory Address 1:: Bridge House, Jericho Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Bridge House, Jericho Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Thorverton
National Grid Reference:: SS9258502128

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 July 2024 to amend the address and reformat the text to current standards

SS 90 SW 8/141

THORVERTON JERICHO STREET (north side) Bridge House

5.4.66

GV II

House and shop. C18 and probably earlier. Whitewashed and rendered; thatched roof with plain ridge, gabled at ends, hipped to two storey porch; thatch replaced by slates to rear of ridge; left end brick stack, stack with brick shaft to first floor front projection the centre; front door to house to the left, the accommodation extending in a rear left wing at right angles to the main range. In the centre a two storey porch room on timber posts projects over the pavement. The porch, dated 1763 with the initials PW1, may be an addition to an earlier building.

Two storeys. Asymmetrical front; one window to the left of the porch, two to the right, C20 shop window and shop door in the centre below the porch which is carried on four timber posts. C19 panelled front door with rectangular fanlight. Variety of timber sashes with glazing bars.

Interior not inspected but may have features of interest.

Bridge House, with its picturesque front elevation is in a crucial position in the centre of Thorverton.

Listing NGR: SS9258502128

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Legacy System number:: 439204
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.