Description

BIDEFORD

SS42NW NORTHDOWN ROAD
842-1/1/210 Fairlea including gatepiers at E end
19/03/73 and garden wall
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHDOWN ROAD
Favilea (including gate piers))

II

Detached house. 1840. Solid rendered walls. Slate roof.
Rendered chimneys with octagonal shafts. Iregular double-depth
plan; staircase centre right with original kitchen behind it.
2 storeys with basement. Gothic and Tudor exterior with
3-window front facing east. Gabled projection to right with
Gothic bargeboards, these continued to left and on to right
side-wall as a deep boxed eaves cornice. Small-paned sash
window with Gothic arches to the top row of panes; straight
hood-moulds. Pilaster-strips at left end of front and flanking
gable. Raised band above ground storey. Similar gables and
windows on each side-wall, although that to left has only
plain sashes. Back entrance to left has plank door in a
pointed-arched opening; trellised porch with Gothic
bargeboards.
INTERIOR: geometrical wood stair with cutstrings and thin
square balusters, the soffits of the treads shaped. 2
round-headed semi-circular niches in the compartment-walls.
Entrance-passage and first-floor landing have plaster frieze
of Gothic arches. Enriched oval skylight with glazing-bars.
Original large kitchen fireplace with wood surrounds.
High stone rubble garden walls with gate (disused) at E end,
at the junction with Slade. Square rendered gate-piers with
pedimented caps; inset Gothic panels, that to right retaining
original rustic trellis-work (twigs with bark still on) nailed
to a wooden board.
(Information from owner).

Listing NGR: SS4439026884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580455

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)