Rock Park Lodge
ROCK PARK LODGE, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385223
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Park Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK PARK LODGE, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385223
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Park Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK PARK LODGE, NEW 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:
- ROCK PARK LODGE, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 56259 32606
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 NEW ROAD
684-1/5/217 (South West side)
Rock Park Lodge
GV II
Lodge. c1879. Flemish bond red brick (single-storey block
stretcher bond) with moulded brick detail; concrete tile roof
with terracotta finials; stacks with brick shafts with some
brick tumbling and corbelled cornices; cast-iron rainwater
goods. Queen Anne style.
Asymmetrical plan, facing Rock Park, to the west, with a
service court backing onto New Road, which runs immediately NE
of the lodge.
Main block one and a half storeys. Asymmetrical one-window
entrance (NW) front. Good brick detail throughout includes
rubbed and moulded brick and an external panel of a terracotta
swag of fruit in an egg and dart frame on the NE side. Coved
eaves cornice, platband with terracotta motifs. Windows are
glazed with original casements with high transoms and glazing
bars. Entrance elevation has porch in the angle between the
main block (to the left) and a projecting wing at right angles
(to the right). Main range has half-hipped roof and 2-storey
bay, tile-hung panel between the 3-light ground- and
first-floor windows. Ground-floor window of bay has elaborate
dentil frieze, modillions and corner brackets. Porch in angle
has hipped roof carried on a post and an 8-panel door; small
oriel window on moulded brackets on left return. The end of
the wing, facing S, has canted corners and is corbelled at
first-floor level. Central 2-light ground-floor casement
flanked by one-light windows in the return corners of the bay.
Hipped roof and big gabled half dormer with a 4-light oriel
window. Single-storey block on E side has a scalloped gutter
with short curved outlet pipes. Rear elevation, facing New
Road has courtyard walls with gateway with gate piers with
ball finials. INTERIOR not inspected.
An early example in this style.
Listing NGR: SS5625932606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485685
- 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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