Access Guide
Summary
- View information about opening hours.
- There is a member of staff available for help and assistance.
- The following are also available: a large map in the car park and an information board in the car park.
- Toilet and changing facilities available include: a toilet with some adaptations, ambulant cubicles and step free standard toilets.
- The toilet with adaptations for disabled people surveyed can be found in the car park.
- The standard toilets surveyed can be found in the car park.
Admissions
- At this location the following are free to access for all visitors: all areas of the site except parking.
- At this location the following areas are free to access for National Trust members but payable for everyone else: all areas of the site.
- Parking is free for National Trust members and Blue Badge holders but chargeable for all other visitors.
Public Transport
- There is a bus stop within approximately 150m of the site.
- Ruda Holiday Park bus stop is the closest.
- The nearest train station is Barnstaple.
- Barnstaple Station is approximately 11 miles away.
There is a regular bus service from the station to the nearest stop for the site. - For the latest travel options and information you can plan your travel using Traveline (opens new tab).
Parking
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces and potholes.
- This is an open air car park with a gravel and compacted gravel surface.
- Parking is free for National Trust members and Blue Badge holders, but charges apply for all other visitors.
- There are clearly presented payment signs.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are 2 Blue Badge parking bays.
- There is no hatched zone.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, a road crossing and a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There are 2 electric vehicle charging points.
- There is no electric vehicle charging point designated for Blue Badge holders.
- An app is required for electric vehicle charging not designated for Blue Badge holders.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Equipment and Resources to Borrow
- Equipment cannot be borrowed or hired.
- Powered mobility vehicles cannot be borrowed or hired.
Visitor Reception
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- There is step-free level access around the area.
- There is room for wheelchair users to manoeuvre (150cm x 150cm) throughout the area.
- Some of the flooring is smooth and even.
- Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to uneven paving/tiles.
- There is step-free level access to the counter.
- The height of the counter is 103cm.
- There is not a low level section at a suitable height for a wheelchair user.
- The counter does not have a hearing assistance system.
- Services/facilities available include: a portable card machine for payment and a member of staff to provide assistance.
- There is no (or very little) background noise here.
- The inside of the building is for staff only. If you need assistance, a member of staff will come out to you.
Entrance (Toilets)
- The entrance surveyed is located off the car park.
- There is step-free access via ramp at the entrance.
- The slight ramp is between 75cm and 150cm wide, with no handrails.
- There is an opening without doors .
- The width of the opening is 94cm.
Toilet with Adaptations (Car Park Toilet Block - Ambulant - Left Hand Transfer)
- This toilet is located in the car park.
- There is step-free level access into the toilet.
- There is pictorial and written text signage on or near the door.
- The door is manual, opens outwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- The width of the toilet door opening is 87cm.
- The door has a locking handle.
- The dimensions of the cubicle are 165cm x 220cm and it does not have a 150cm x 150cm turning space.
- There is a lateral transfer space to the left of the seat but it is obstructed.
- The lateral transfer space is 95cm from the side of the toilet pan to the wall.
- There is a spatula flush on the non transfer side.
- The following grab rails are available: a horizontal grab rail on the door, a horizontal grab rail on the non transfer side, a vertical grab rail on the transfer side and vertical grab rails on both sides of the wash basin.
- There is a dropdown rail on the transfer side.
- The following fixtures can be reached from the toilet seat: toilet roll holder, wash basin and soap dispenser.
- The following fixtures cannot be reached from the toilet seat: hand dryer.
- The height of the toilet seat above floor level is 48cm.
- The height of the toilet roll holder is 86cm.
- The wash basin tap type is lever mixer.
- The height of the wash basin is 78cm.
- The height of the soap dispenser is 105cm.
- The height of the hand dryer is 130cm.
- The height of the baby change is 89cm.
- There is a pull cord emergency alarm but it is not at a recommended height (within 10cm from the floor).
- There is not a shelf.
- The cubicle has: a nappy/incontinence items bin, a sanitary bin and a padded back rest for seat.
- The cubicle does not have a full length mirror and coat hooks.
- The following have a high colour contrast with their surroundings: the internal door, the floor, the toilet seat and some grab rails.
- The following have a less clear colour contrast with their surroundings: the dropdown rail and some grab rails.
- Lighting levels are moderate to good.
Standard Toilet (Car Park Toilet Block - Female)
- There is step-free level access into the toilet.
- The door is manual, opens inwards and has a low colour contrast with the surrounding walls.
- The width of the door opening is 78cm.
- Internally the door has a high colour contrast.
- The female toilet was surveyed.
- There is also a male toilet in the same location.
- The width of the widest cubicle door opening is 59cm.
- There is an ambulant cubicle available with horizontal grab rails on both sides.
- The wash basin tap type is twist turn mixer.
- Lighting levels are moderate to good.
- There are hand dryers.