Description

BIDEFORD

SS4526 TORRIDGE HILL 842-1/6/243 (South side) 19/03/73 Wooda (Formerly Listed as: TORRIDGE HILL Woodah (or Wooder) with the Tower in the grounds)

GV II

Detached house. Early or mid C19; possibly 1848. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimney symmetrically placed at each end of ridge. 2 storeys; 5-windows range, the 3 centre windows in a slight projection. Raised quoins at each end of front and flanking the projection. Round-arched doorways at left end of projection and at far right-hand end of front; moulded flat architraves with lion-head keystones; 4-panelled doors (that to left with knocker); fanlights with glazing-bars forming 2 Gothic arches. Windows have moulded architraves and 6-paned sashes, except that the left-hand second-storey window is blind. Deep, boxed eaves cornice. Attached to the right front corner of the house is a square rendered gate-pier, channelled to imitate rusticated ashlar; stepped, 3-tiered cap. Left side-wall has windows matching those at the front. INTERIOR not inspected. The building is not shown on the Bideford Tithe Map of 1841. The folly which formerly stood in its grounds is now a separate house and is listed as The Folly, New Road (qv). A stone tablet dug up near the latter reads G.Richards. 1848. (Bideford Tithe Map: 1841-).

Listing NGR: SS4529026196

External Links

• Wikidata Q26505039

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)