Pedestrian Gateway and Gate and Entrance Lodge to Belmont Hospital

PEDESTRIAN GATEWAY AND GATE AND ENTRANCE LODGE TO BELMONT HOSPITAL, BELMONT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384768
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1972
List Entry Name:
Pedestrian Gateway and Gate and Entrance Lodge to Belmont Hospital
Statutory Address:
PEDESTRIAN GATEWAY AND GATE AND ENTRANCE LODGE TO BELMONT HOSPITAL, BELMONT ROAD

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Date:
2007-06-23
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384768
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:
Pedestrian Gateway and Gate and Entrance Lodge to Belmont Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
PEDESTRIAN GATEWAY AND GATE AND ENTRANCE LODGE TO BELMONT HOSPITAL, BELMONT ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PEDESTRIAN GATEWAY AND GATE AND ENTRANCE LODGE TO BELMONT HOSPITAL, BELMONT ROAD

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Tiverton
National Grid Reference:
SS 95821 12968

Details

TIVERTON

SS9512 BELMONT ROAD, Tiverton
848-1/6/138 Pedestrian gateway, gate and
14/12/72 entrance lodge to Belmont hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
BELMONT ROAD
Belmont Hospital)

GV II

Pedestrian gateway, gate and entrance lodge to Belmont
Hospital (qv), formerly the Tiverton workhouse. Classical
lodge boarded up and disused at time of survey. 1837-1838 to
the designs of Scott and Moffat. Coursed and snecked local
stone; slate roof and stack with glazed yellow brick shaft to
lodge; iron gate to gateway.
STYLE: Classical.
PLAN: the pedestrian entrance to the workhouse is from Water
Lane and leads to what was the principal entrance front of the
workhouse complex with a small lodge inside the gate to the
east. The lodge is 2 rooms on plan with a central entrance and
rear right stack.
EXTERIOR: fine classical gateway with a round headed
pedimented archway with a keyblock and piers with capitals.
Iron gate has diagonal cross- bracing with a central roundel;
tympanum of arch filled with panel of iron bars.
Single storey lodge with stone eaves band and 3-bay
symmetrical front; hipped slate roof with lead rolls; snecked
stone with hammer-dressed ashlar dressings. Projecting
pedimented porch with round-headed outer doorway and 4-panel
front door. left and right windows are boarded up but were
probably small-pane timber sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.




Listing NGR: SS9582112968

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Legacy System number:
485227
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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