High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lindridge House was a large 17th.c. mansion (with 20th.c. alterations), one of the finest in the south-west situated about 1 mile south of Ideford in the parish of Bishopsteignton, Devon, about 4 1/2 miles NE of Newton Abbot. It was destroyed by fire on 25 April 1963 and its ruins were finally demolished in the early 1990`s, upon which was built a housing development.