Torbay Council
Listed building outline
| Reference | Name | Listed building | Geometry | Description | Notes | Organisation | Uprns | Entry date | Start date | End date |
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| 390486 | Parish Church Of All Saints | 1279536 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.540802 50.468760,-3.540779 50.468798,-3.540795 50.468824,-3.540818 50.468833,-3.540863 50.468832,-3.540908 50.468809,-3.541012 50.468856,-3.541065 50.468840,-3.541133 50.468779,-3.541079 50.468755,-3.541085 50.468749,-3.541070 50.468752,-3.541054 50.468744,-3.541092 50.468718,-3.541085 50.468715,-3.541109 50.468693,-3.541122 50.468691,-3.541114 50.468687,-3.541139 50.468665,-3.541151 50.468664,-3.541144 50.468660,-3.541169 50.468639,-3.541194 50.468651,-3.541248 50.468603,-3.541182 50.468573,-3.541189 50.468567,-3.541178 50.468562,-3.541201 50.468541,-3.541168 50.468525,-3.541101 50.468495,-3.541083 50.468510,-3.541063 50.468509,-3.541055 50.468516,-3.540997 50.468489,-3.540941 50.468539,-3.540963 50.468548,-3.540928 50.468571,-3.540934 50.468574,-3.540898 50.468598,-3.540904 50.468601,-3.540879 50.468623,-3.540867 50.468626,-3.540874 50.468629,-3.540850 50.468651,-3.540834 50.468644,-3.540840 50.468639,-3.540834 50.468636,-3.540822 50.468638,-3.540816 50.468643,-3.540822 50.468646,-3.540768 50.468688,-3.540776 50.468698,-3.540782 50.468692,-3.540797 50.468700,-3.540754 50.468738,-3.540802 50.468760))) | Parish church. 1883-9 to the designs of JL Pearson; contractor F.Matthews of Babbacombe; total cost »11,000. Local grey limestone brought to course; Bathstone dressings; natural slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Geometric Decorated style. PLAN: Nave; chancel with polygonal apse; lean-to north and south aisles; transepts to west and east; west end northex. EXTERIOR: Polygonal east end, the apse windows 2-light with decorated tracery and divided by polygonal shafts with two 3-light windows to north and south of chancel. East transepts with angle buttresses and 5-light traceried windows. 4-bay buttressed lean-to aisles with 2-light traceried windows. West transepts with 3-light windows with unusual tracery. West end with big 6-light traceried west window and open 3-bay buttressed narthex flanked by large nave buttresses terminating in polygonal turrets with stone spires: the north side turret a belfry. Moulded outer arches to the narthex, which has a timber roof with cusped trusses, pair of moulded inner doorways with 2-leaf boarded, studded doors with ornamental strap hinges. West side walls of west end transepts with 2-light traceried windows. C19 lamp on large wrought-iron bracket fixed to north side. The south side exploits the steep wedge-shaped site with a vestry complex on the south side of the chancel overlooking Mill Lane. INTERIOR: 4-bay arcades with columns with clustered shafts. Alternate bays have stone arches across the nave, which has a keeled open wagon roof. Aisles have quadripartite stone vaulted roofs with ribs. Drum pulpit with carved sides. Fine octagonal marble font, given by the architect (information from the incumbent) with similarities of design to Butterfield's font at All Saints, Babbacombe (qv). Candelabra, said to be of non-English design. C19 floor tiling. Set of Clayton and Bell stained glass. SPECIAL FEATURES: Vestry has engraving of church with intended tower; church formerly had a carillon. HISTORY: Agatha Christie was baptised here. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.848). Listing NGR: SX9073764341 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390488 | Parish Church Of St Martin | 1207876 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.540766 50.490396,-3.540784 50.490368,-3.540794 50.490370,-3.540834 50.490302,-3.540822 50.490300,-3.540839 50.490271,-3.540788 50.490259,-3.540792 50.490253,-3.540606 50.490211,-3.540613 50.490201,-3.540483 50.490171,-3.540465 50.490202,-3.540349 50.490176,-3.540335 50.490201,-3.540313 50.490196,-3.540285 50.490246,-3.540309 50.490251,-3.540295 50.490277,-3.540409 50.490303,-3.540381 50.490354,-3.540444 50.490368,-3.540464 50.490333,-3.540766 50.490396))) | Parish church. 1938 to the designs of NF Cachemaille Day. Plastered on brick footings; slate roofs. Neo-Romanesque style. PLAN: Nave with west end baptistry; chancel with 3-bay aisles and 2-bay south organ chamber; north-east tower; east end Lady Chapel. EXTERIOR: North side show front with no chancel/nave division. Projecting tower, rectangular on plan, adjoins chancel; lower-roofed Lady Chapel to east. Nave with parapet has 8 high-set round-headed aisle windows recessed behind a colonnade of columns supporting brick arches. Round-headed doorway to east of nave with recessed brick arch and original 2-leaf timber door with vertical roll mouldings which are repeated as glazing bars in the fanlight. 2-leaf door at west end of nave in lower-roofed west end baptistry block. 3-stage tower has 3 sets of triple round-headed windows on north side, the upper set louvred belfry windows. East return of tower decorated with massive relief sculpture of the Crucifixion. North side of Lady Chapel with ribbon of 5 round-headed windows divided by columns. East end of Lady Chapel breaks forward with one round-headed window. Blocked round-headed doorways in set-back bays to left and right. INTERIOR: Flat-roofed with no nave/chancel division. Aisle and organ chamber bays with brick columns, star-shaped on plan. Plain 3-bay arcade into baptistry, which is top-lit. Massive baldacchino to sanctuary with 4 round-headed arches and gabled roof on 4 columns with Byzantine capitals. Baldacchino gilded with reliefs of censing angels. Low, solid chancel screen, semicircular on plan. Wall between sanctuary and Lady Chapel pierced by 3 round-headed glazed arches. Pulpit, round on plan, projects out of north wall with access via concealed stairs. Torquay marble font. Lady Chapel has massive gilded corona lucis and abstract stained glass in east window. Baptistry stained glass of 1959. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.850). Listing NGR: SX9081666745 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390489 | Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery | 1206729 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.543410 50.483943,-3.543440 50.483945,-3.543443 50.483934,-3.543467 50.483943,-3.543478 50.483939,-3.543466 50.483928,-3.543473 50.483889,-3.543489 50.483882,-3.543480 50.483875,-3.543454 50.483877,-3.543467 50.483864,-3.543460 50.483858,-3.543416 50.483859,-3.543420 50.483875,-3.543303 50.483862,-3.543310 50.483869,-3.543299 50.483918,-3.543289 50.483923,-3.543296 50.483929,-3.543311 50.483923,-3.543413 50.483930,-3.543410 50.483943))) | Anglican cemetery chapel, disused and semi-derelict at time of survey. c1852, probably contemporary with the establishment of the cemetery. Snecked local grey limestone with Bathstone dressings; slate roof. Decorated style. PLAN: Simple aisleless plan: 3 bays. On a south-west/north-east axis. South-west end (ritual west) has doorway; porch on ritual south side in western bay; slender engaged bell tower in (ritual) western bay on north side. EXTERIOR: Diagonal buttresses with set-offs; coped gables. Ritual west end has a 3-centred moulded doorway with a hoodmould; original plank door with elaborate strap hinges. 3-centred arched window above has a hoodmould, probably 2-light but boarded up at time of survey. West end has a larger boarded-up window with a hoodmould, set in a round-headed panel of masonry. Small gabled porch on south side with a double-chamfered arched doorway and remains of original boarded door with elaborate strap hinges. The 2 eastern bays have crank-headed blocked windows with hoodmoulds. North side similar but with 3-stage tower in the western bay with diagonal buttresses. Moulded arched doorway on north face. Second stage has one-light trefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds and splays, up to the octagonal belfry stage which has tall trefoil-headed louvred belfry openings and a pyramidal stone slate roof with a crocketed finial. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: 17-acre site established by the Torquay Extra-Mural Cemetery Company (Brooks). Included for group value. (Brooks Chris (ed.): Mortal Remains: 1989-: P.176). Listing NGR: SX9060066039 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390490 | Marrillier Monument North East Of The Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery | 1279520 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.542717 50.483877,-3.542736 50.483878,-3.542740 50.483863,-3.542718 50.483862,-3.542717 50.483877))) | Memorial commemorating Robert Aspland Marrillier, Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding, d.1903 and other members of the family. White Italian marble. A tall tapering monument with an oversailing cap with an egg-and-dart moulding and acroteria at the corners. Fine, naturalistic life-size sculpture of a mourning woman seated at the base, holding a wreath of flowers. Described by Brooks, who considers that the figure could be a portrait, as undoubtedly Italian. (Brooks, Chris (ed.): Mortal Remains: 1989-: P.176). Listing NGR: SX9064666032 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390491 | Singer Sarcophagus North East Of Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery | 1280071 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.543360 50.483633,-3.543392 50.483682,-3.543489 50.483656,-3.543457 50.483607,-3.543360 50.483633))) | Sarcophagus commemorating Isaac Merritt Singer, d.1875, and other members of the family. Signed by the Monumental Company, Kensal Green. White Italian marble on a polished grey granite plinth with steps and enclosed by a fence of polished grey granite posts with chains slung between. Renaissance style. The sarcophagus has corbelled diagonal buttresses and a coped oversailing lid. Lavish carving includes passion flowers, corn stalks and vines. Inscription panels on all four sides with foliage-carved frames. A sumptuous monument to the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, who financed the building of Oldway in Paignton (qv). Reported to have cost 'several thousand pounds'. (Brooks, Chris: Mortal Remains: 1989-: P.176). Listing NGR: SX9063166064 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390492 | De Reede De Ter Memorial East Of The Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery | 1207931 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.542979 50.483899,-3.543014 50.483902,-3.543018 50.483881,-3.542981 50.483877,-3.542979 50.483899))) | Memorial. c1896. White marble. Quattrocento style. Pedimented white marble tablet flanked by fluted composite pilasters and decorated with egg-and-dart and bead-and-reel mouldings. Fine relief carving of the Madonna and Child, probably of Italian origin. Inscription commemorates Kitty, Baroness de Reede de Ter, d.1896. Unusually high quality carving. Listing NGR: SX9061766032 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390493 | Torquay Cemetery Lodge Including Flanking Walls, Gates And Gate Piers | 1206730 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.542929 50.483277,-3.542973 50.483225,-3.543045 50.483197,-3.543058 50.483223,-3.543132 50.483208,-3.543119 50.483181,-3.543183 50.483173,-3.543205 50.483164,-3.543241 50.483130,-3.543275 50.483137,-3.543266 50.483154,-3.543396 50.483176,-3.543414 50.483140,-3.543395 50.483136,-3.543391 50.483143,-3.543343 50.483133,-3.543348 50.483124,-3.543381 50.483125,-3.543398 50.483112,-3.543407 50.483114,-3.543422 50.483082,-3.543313 50.483059,-3.543309 50.483066,-3.543294 50.483063,-3.543273 50.483075,-3.543289 50.483041,-3.543282 50.483027,-3.543226 50.482984,-3.543285 50.482954,-3.543243 50.482920,-3.543187 50.482949,-3.543169 50.482918,-3.543163 50.482864,-3.543163 50.482921,-3.543181 50.482952,-3.543282 50.483041,-3.543237 50.483129,-3.543201 50.483162,-3.543181 50.483170,-3.543055 50.483190,-3.542969 50.483223,-3.542947 50.483244,-3.542929 50.483277))) | Cemetery Lodge including gates and curtain walls to carriage turn. c1852, the date the cemetery was established. Snecked local grey limestone rubble; Bathstone dressings; natural slate roof; stacks with octagonal stone shafts, one reduced in height. Cast-iron gates and railings. Tudor style. PLAN: Lodge approximately rectangular: rear left service wing, rear right outhouse. Lodge is the centrepiece of an entrance ensemble with gateways to either side and curving curtain walls which incorporate the entrances to 2 small buildings, perhaps storehouses. EXTERIOR: Single-storey lodge. Picturesque asymmetrical front elevation of 3 irregular bays projecting forward from the main block. Porch in centre with a coped gable, moulded 3-centred doorway and recessed plank door. To its right the lodge is gabled to the front with a coped gable and 2-light stone windows of paired lancets below a square-headed dripstone: windows glazed with small-pane sashes. To left of porch and slightly set back a 3-sided turret with moulded string below the parapet and a single lancet in a stone frame. The returns of the main block have 2-light windows, matching those on the front. The rear elevation appears to incorporate some fragments of an earlier building: a section of rubble wall between the rear wings may be pre-C19 and the main block incorporates a probably C19 Beerstone window. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Flanking the front of the lodge cast-iron railings on a low chamfered plinth have fleur-de-lis finials above the dog rail and cross finials above the top rail; matching gates. Octagonal gate piers to left and right gates have pyramidal stone caps and moulded cornices. The flanking walls have gabled piers at either end and incorporate 3-centred arched doorways with plank doors and elaborate strap hinges. HISTORY: 17 acre site established by the Torquay Extra-Mural Cemetery Company. (Brooks). (Brooks C (ed.): Mortal Remains: Exeter: 1989-: P.176). Listing NGR: SX9060365949 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390494 | Babbacombe Cliff Hotel | 1279510 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.511669 50.477948,-3.511635 50.477994,-3.511713 50.478019,-3.511811 50.477811,-3.511805 50.477809,-3.511810 50.477798,-3.511740 50.477784,-3.511745 50.477773,-3.511821 50.477786,-3.511863 50.477694,-3.511646 50.477651,-3.511634 50.477652,-3.511615 50.477691,-3.511438 50.477660,-3.511414 50.477713,-3.511511 50.477730,-3.511490 50.477776,-3.511565 50.477791,-3.511565 50.477803,-3.511630 50.477816,-3.511632 50.477839,-3.511677 50.477848,-3.511692 50.477829,-3.511706 50.477831,-3.511702 50.477844,-3.511714 50.477844,-3.511669 50.477948))) | Formerly known as: Cliffside Cottage Hotel BEACH ROAD. House, in use as holiday flats. 1878 by WE Nesfield; extended c1920s, some unfortunate late C20 alterations. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sanstone dressings, some slate-hanging; natural scantle slate roof; stacks with moulded brick shafts and caps. Art and Crafts style. PLAN: Overall L-plan: main block facing north over the sea, west wing at right-angles with a carriageway through it at the north end. c1920s extension at east end of main block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic Earlier part of main block has 2-window front with a slate pentice at first-floor level and a moulded timber arched doorway. Single-storey addition to right. Canted slate-hung bay to left with a deep gable over with a 3-light attic window; 3-light window to right. The right return (front of the west wing) is slate-hung on the first floor with 2 gabled, 2-tier canted oriels to the left, the coving of the oriels pargetted, the windows glazed with ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with leaded panes, the first floor with transoms. Similar oriel to right, above the carriage. The right return of the wing has a first floor projecting timber look-out supported on deep timber brackets. INTERIOR: Includes an original stair; good tiling to the entrance lobby; pressed paper moulded ceiling in the first-floor room at the north end of the wing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.862). Listing NGR: SX9283465308 | 1972-02-14 | 1972-02-14 | ||||
| 390495 | Cliffside Cottage Hotel | 1280072 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.509784 50.478001,-3.509779 50.477931,-3.509611 50.477934,-3.509612 50.477939,-3.509550 50.477942,-3.509450 50.477966,-3.509476 50.478006,-3.509525 50.477996,-3.509530 50.478020,-3.509622 50.478018,-3.509621 50.478006,-3.509784 50.478001))) | House. 2-phase. c1840s with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed and blocked out with rusticated quoins; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with octagonal shafts with platbands; crested ridge tiles. EXTERIOR: Elevation facing the sea of 2 storeys; rear elevation single-storey. 2:2-window front, the right-hand block with a first floor timber verandah with 2 gables to the fornt and a Tudor arched arcade. 2 ground and 2 first-floor 2-light timber casements. Block to the left with a 2-window front with a flat-roofed single-storey addition on the front. Rear elevation of 6-window range with 2 gables to the front and a projecting gabled porch with a chamfered Tudor doorway with a 6-panel door. C20 metal-frame windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Part of a group of picturesque small houses built on the steep wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. Listing NGR: SX9298065328 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390496 | Rose Cottage | 1207979 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.510208 50.477977,-3.510252 50.477856,-3.510183 50.477846,-3.510169 50.477884,-3.510143 50.477880,-3.510139 50.477890,-3.510083 50.477883,-3.510058 50.477957,-3.510208 50.477977))) | Formerly known as: Rose Cottage BEACH ROAD. Small house. c1840s. Plastered; thatched roof, hipped at ends; end stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Single-depth main block, 2 rooms wide, with central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with 2-leaf front door with fanlight with spoke glazing bars. 2 ground-floor 2-light casements; 3 first-floor 2-light casements with diagonal glazing bars in the head, replacing the leaded glazing mentioned in the 1975 list description. Replacement timber verandah across front with a slated roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. Part of a group of picturesque small houses built on the steep wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. Listing NGR: SX9294465326 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390497 | The Grove | 1207982 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.508044 50.477973,-3.507911 50.477972,-3.507914 50.478015,-3.507705 50.478028,-3.507711 50.478085,-3.507838 50.478082,-3.507861 50.478072,-3.507865 50.478107,-3.507890 50.478126,-3.507921 50.478121,-3.507942 50.478104,-3.507946 50.478119,-3.507973 50.478119,-3.507972 50.478105,-3.508003 50.478117,-3.508039 50.478114,-3.508053 50.478095,-3.508044 50.477973))) | House. c1840s - date of 1849 found on paintwork during renovations. Re-planned internally and thoroughly restored externally in the 1990s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Cottage ornee style. PLAN: Deep rectangular central staircase plan: some rear additions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the outer bays bowed and gabled to the front. Very deep eaves on massive brackets; pierced ornamental bargeboards with apex pendants. Central gabled porch with elaborate bargeboards and buttresses; Tudor-arched doorway. C20 French windows to outer bays; 2-light C20 timber casements to first floor, centre window with arched heads. INTERIOR: Modernized and replanned. This house is one of a collection of picturesque small houses built on the steep, wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. The house was derelict and vandalized prior to its thorough renovation. Listing NGR: SX9310365336 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390498 | Undercliff | 1206731 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.509438 50.478248,-3.509499 50.478230,-3.509492 50.478220,-3.509573 50.478197,-3.509528 50.478134,-3.509490 50.478145,-3.509481 50.478132,-3.509449 50.478140,-3.509444 50.478135,-3.509337 50.478168,-3.509352 50.478189,-3.509385 50.478197,-3.509401 50.478193,-3.509438 50.478248))) | House. c1840s. Stuccoed; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: L-plan, main block single depth, 2 rooms wide with front left projecting wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, wing gabled to the front at the left, small gable to the front at right of main block. Moulded string at first-floor sill level. Probably secondary canted bay windows to the first floor with hoodmoulds; 2 ground floor French windows with hoodmoulds, one smaller window with hoodmould. Open verandah on posts with glazed roof across front of main block. No grand entrance elevation, small door on rear. INTERIOR: Not inspected but known to have some C19 features. Listing NGR: SX9299565352 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390499 | Beacon Terrace | 1293347 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.524613 50.458613,-3.524454 50.458382,-3.524178 50.458460,-3.524217 50.458518,-3.524237 50.458512,-3.524277 50.458571,-3.524335 50.458555,-3.524348 50.458573,-3.524405 50.458558,-3.524420 50.458581,-3.524397 50.458588,-3.524404 50.458599,-3.524313 50.458624,-3.524488 50.458878,-3.524744 50.458815,-3.524696 50.458729,-3.524613 50.458613))) | Formerly known as: Nos.1-7 BEACON TERRACE. Terrace of 7 houses. 1833 by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts and plain bands; some old chimneypots. PLAN: Sited stepping up the hill and overlooking the harbour. Double-depth plans with front doors to the right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Each house has a 3-bay front. Alternating designs. Type A, Nos 2,4,6 & 8 with low parapets, platbands at second-floor sill level; cast-iron first-floor balconies, originally with tent roofs. Type B (3,5 & 7) with similar platbands interrupted by giant pilasters with incised key decoration, incised capitals and plain entablature to the first and second floors. Round-headed doorways, originally similar to the Southernhay, Exeter type, with panelled reveals, moulded architraves with vermiculated rustication and key blocks with carved or cast heads (some doorways altered). Some retain very pretty lead fanlights with star motifs around central roundel. Ground-floor windows originally 12-pane sashes, mostly reglazed, some retaining sunblind fascias. First-floor windows 6 over 9-pane sashes; second-floor windows 12-pane sashes; attic dormers. Cast-iron balconies (Nos 6 & 8 replaced) with anthemia and palmettes. No.2 has a flat-roofed addition to the left. Nos 3 & 4 have gas lamps attached. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. HISTORY: An 1839 view of Beacon Hill (Ellis, p.337) shows the terrace before alterations. A fine terrace of its date and a good example of the urbane designs of Jacob Harvey, who was responsible for the best early C19 housing in Torquay. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.337). Listing NGR: SX9189163180 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390500 | Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court | 1206732 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.524276 50.458302,-3.524180 50.458425,-3.524163 50.458420,-3.524023 50.458459,-3.524038 50.458482,-3.524213 50.458436,-3.524236 50.458444,-3.524454 50.458382,-3.524435 50.458353,-3.524276 50.458302))) | Pair of terraced houses, undergoing conversion to flats at time of survey. c1830s by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate mansard roof; stacks with rendered shafts and platbands. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic 3:3-window front with front doors to left. Platbands below second-floor sill. Deep projecting eaves cornice with blocking course. Description only approximate as some detail concealed or not in situ during conversion. Right-hand house has square-headed doorway, 2 ground-floor windows probably 12-pane sashes. 6 over 9-pane first floor sashes (balconies in situ), 12-pane second floor sashes; C20 small pane sashes in mansard roof. The left-hand house is similar but has a good corner bay. Round-headed doorway of the Southernhay, Exeter type with a reeded moulding, vermiculated rustication and a key block with a carved or cast head. Greek key moulding across doorway and below fanlight which is a particularly pretty design in lead with a central roundel with star motifs. C20 two-leaf small-pane door. First-floor 6 over 9-pane sash with a C20 balcony; 12-pane second floor sash. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest HISTORY: Part of the same terrace as Nos 2-8 Beacon Hill, (qv). Ellis reproduces an 1839 drawing of the terrace before alterations. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.337). Listing NGR: SX9189563172 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390501 | Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court | 1208053 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.524024 50.458319,-3.524065 50.458332,-3.524058 50.458340,-3.524075 50.458345,-3.524066 50.458356,-3.524051 50.458352,-3.524026 50.458384,-3.524104 50.458403,-3.524139 50.458359,-3.524172 50.458370,-3.524138 50.458413,-3.524180 50.458425,-3.524279 50.458299,-3.524091 50.458237,-3.524024 50.458319))) | Pair of terraced houses, undergoing conversion to flats at time of survey. c1830s by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate mansard roof; stacks with rendered shafts and platbands. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic 3:3 window front, each house with a front door to the left. Platbands below second floor sill and eaves; deep projecting cornice with blocking course. Description only approximate as some detail concealed or not in situ during conversion. Right-hand house has round-headed doorway, left-hand square-headed. Ground-floor windows probably 12-pane sashes; first-floor windows 6 over 9-pane; second-floor 12-pane sashes. Attic windows in mansard C20 small-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Partial inspection. Buildings appear to be replanned internally with new joinery etc HISTORY: Part of the same terrace as Nos 2-8 Beacon Terrace (qv). Ellis reproduces an 1839 drawing of the terrace before alterations. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.337). Listing NGR: SX9190863167 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390502 | Royal Torbay Yacht Club | 1280073 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.523941 50.458416,-3.524089 50.458239,-3.523849 50.458154,-3.523735 50.458121,-3.523723 50.458136,-3.523640 50.458107,-3.523576 50.458186,-3.523752 50.458245,-3.523737 50.458268,-3.523782 50.458284,-3.523767 50.458301,-3.523831 50.458335,-3.523941 50.458416),(-3.523859 50.458340,-3.523835 50.458323,-3.523852 50.458302,-3.523882 50.458318,-3.523896 50.458300,-3.523933 50.458313,-3.523896 50.458356,-3.523859 50.458340))) | Club house, probably originally house. c1840s; C20 alterations. Plastered; hipped slate roof with lead rolls; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Main block with central entrance into a passage, stair rises to rear. Probably secondary block, slightly set back, to the right (uphill). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The left-hand block originally had a symmetrical 3-bay front. Moulded cornice below parapet. Centre bay broken forward with paired giant Doric pilasters to left and right supporting an entablature. Central doorway with pediment on consoles. Recessed 2-leaf 6-panel studded door with overlight. First-floor centre tripartite sash with C20 glazing. Secondary door to left with cornice. The left-hand bay has ground and first floor tripartite sashes: the ground floor with elaborate moulded brackets supporting a balustrded balcony to the first-floor window, which has richly-moulded consoles supporting a cornice. The right-hand bay has been altered and extended. Plain tripartite ground-floor sash flanked by pilasters, doorway alongside with paired pilasters. Large first-floor canted oriel on brackets with consoles and a cornice, glazed with C20 plate glass high transomed windows: C20 window to right. The right-hand block is slightly set back and partly concealed by a C20 single-storey addition. Projecting cornice and parapet; 2 shallow projecting stacks, with dentil-moulded shafts, projecting through the roof. 2 tall round-headed ground floor windows visible with pilasters, moulded arches and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Entrance passage has original cornice; stair with turned balusters. HISTORY: Ellis includes an illustration of the building when the facade of the left-hand block was complete, after the building was opened in 1893 as the Torquay or Torbay Club. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.355). Listing NGR: SX9193263155 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390503 | 2, BEENLANDS GARDENS | 1208069 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.540752 50.470836,-3.540739 50.470749,-3.540602 50.470753,-3.540614 50.470839,-3.540752 50.470836))) | Terraced house. c1840s. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a cornice below the parapet. Central C20 front door with a Tuscan porch with deep entablature with moulded cornice. 3 first-floor and 2 ground-floor 12-pane sashes with floating cornices on moulded brackets: first-floor windows with sill brackets. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. One of a pair with No.3. Listing NGR: SX9076464577 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390504 | Rycroft | 1206733 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.540764 50.470945,-3.540750 50.470835,-3.540613 50.470839,-3.540628 50.470952,-3.540764 50.470945))) | Terraced house. c1840s. Plastered; gabled slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth plan, 2-rooms wide with a central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a cornice below the parapet. Central recessed 6-panel front door with panelled reveals and plain overlight. Doorway with moulded arch on moulded brackets with a bracket in the shape of a bird at the apex. Ground- and first- floor windows with floating cornices on moulded brackets. Ground-floor window left 6 over 9-pane sash; right 12-pane sash. 3 first-floor 12-pane sashes have moulded sills with sill blocks. C20 attic dormer. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may contain features of interest. One of a pair with No.2 Beenland Gardens, (qv). Listing NGR: SX9076364589 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390573 | Cockington Court | 1206759 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.564209 50.464057,-3.564189 50.464081,-3.564270 50.464110,-3.564253 50.464132,-3.564284 50.464142,-3.564371 50.464039,-3.564320 50.464021,-3.564306 50.464036,-3.564231 50.464011,-3.564246 50.463995,-3.564270 50.464003,-3.564319 50.463943,-3.564347 50.463954,-3.564417 50.463875,-3.564445 50.463885,-3.564501 50.463822,-3.564204 50.463717,-3.564152 50.463778,-3.564208 50.463796,-3.564087 50.463940,-3.564031 50.463921,-3.563978 50.463982,-3.564209 50.464057))) | Mansion set in its own landscaped grounds, now headquarters of Devon Rural Skills Trust. C16 origins (south-west wing dated 1577) when seat of the Carys. Sold in 1654 to Exeter merchant Roger Mallock. Extensive remodelling by Rawlin Mallock c1673. Top floor removed and interior refurbished by Rev. Roger Mallock c1820. Mostly local stone rubble, coursed in places with C19 brick dressings and earlier Beerstone dressings, main front of coursed Beerstone ashlar; red sandstone chimneyshafts; hipped slate roofs. PLAN: Main block faces south-east, double-depth with central passage to large rear stairhall. Main rooms to front with end stacks. Crosswings project forward each end with projecting lateral stacks. North-east wing with kitchen and service stair. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. Late C17 seven-bay classical front of C20 mullion and transom windows (some blockings at first floor level). Central doorway a marble round-headed arch with voussoirs and imposts. 6-panel door with round-head containing Y-tracery, side lights and glazing carried round head. Flanking fluted Corinthian columns (introduced from elsewhere) with plain entablature at first-floor cornice level. Eaves cornice below parapet. Front ends of crosswings have broad replacement 5-light timber mullion-and-transom windows with stone hoodmoulds and relieving arches, more on the inner returns (blind to north-east wing). The outer side of the south-west wing has an irregular 7-window front, mostly casements but includes a couple of 12-pane sashes and a tall arch-headed window containing Gothic tracery to the first floor corridor (similar window at the other end). The north-east wing includes several late C16 stone mullion-and-transom windows, one containing leaded glass but the others blocked or containing later windows. There is also, this side, a probably reset late C16 stone Tudor arch doorway with carved trefoil spandrels. Both crosswings show straight joins with later rear extensions. Rear, partly slate hung, contains mostly timber casements but large early C19 stone Gothic stair window with Y-tracery containing stained glass featuring The Seasons. INTERIOR: Most of interior shows result of C19 refurbishment, notably Gothic vaulted entrance passage to large stair well containing large open well stair, stone steps with iron balustrade. Most of C19 joinery and plaster detail remains. C19 Jacobean-style chimneypiece includes some late C16 marquetry. Late C17 ground-floor room right of entrance passage with bolection panelling and high relief moulded plaster ceiling. North-east wing contains most work earlier than C19 including remains of late C16 kitchen fireplace (ground floor front), late C17 panelling and late C16 granite fireplace (first floor front) and late C17 service stair; a dogleg stair with turned balusters. Cockington Court is part of an exceptional group of listed buildings both in the landscaped park (including the nearby Church of St George and St Mary (qv) and the vernacular buildings (including the Lutyens work) in the adjoining unspoilt village. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.835). Listing NGR: SX8907663845 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390574 | Garden Walls Adjoining To North West Of Cockington Court | 1208572 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.564909 50.464178,-3.565075 50.463977,-3.564525 50.463791,-3.564445 50.463886,-3.564418 50.463875,-3.564346 50.463954,-3.564319 50.463943,-3.564270 50.464003,-3.564246 50.463994,-3.564232 50.464011,-3.564307 50.464036,-3.564319 50.464021,-3.564371 50.464038,-3.564399 50.464007,-3.564909 50.464178))) | Walls enclosing rose garden to rear of Cockington Court (qv). Tall walls enclose three sides of garden, the fourth (south-east) side formed by the house. Late C17-early C18. The south-west and shorter north-west end wall are English garden wall bond red brick with weathered coping bricks and the north-east side wall is local stone rubble with Roman tile coping. Tall walls enclosing formal gardens. Opposing segmental-headed arch doorways in side walls. The garden walls form part of an exceptional group of listed buildings in the park and adjoining unspoilt village. Listing NGR: SX8901863858 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390575 | Stables And Coach House Adjoining To North West Of Cockington Court | 1206760 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.564803 50.464317,-3.564848 50.464265,-3.564330 50.464087,-3.564290 50.464135,-3.564352 50.464157,-3.564309 50.464207,-3.564390 50.464234,-3.564429 50.464189,-3.564803 50.464317))) | Stables and coach house serving Cockinton Court (qv), now used as workshops. Early C19 with some C20 alterations. Local stone rubble with brick dressings, some of it roughcast; gable-ended slate roof. L-plan building extending north westwards from rear end of north-east crosswing of Cockington Court (qv). Crosswing projects to north-east next to the main house whilst main block faces south-west onto a narrow cobbled courtyard between the stables and coach hosue and the wall of the rear garden (qv). Roughly central carriage entrance through main block. South west has irregular front including some C20 garage doors but several smaller original doorways and hayloft hatches as well as unglazed windows. Carriage entrance with flat arch, loading hatch door and lunette above under gabled cross roof. Two C20 stone buttresses to right of carriage entrance. The stables and coach house form part of an exceptionally attractive group of listed buildings both in the park and in the adjoining unspoilt village. Listing NGR: SX8905063879 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390576 | Gamekeeper'S Cottage | 1293073 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.560185 50.460715,-3.560257 50.460685,-3.560108 50.460543,-3.560038 50.460572,-3.560079 50.460612,-3.560063 50.460618,-3.560103 50.460658,-3.560119 50.460651,-3.560185 50.460715))) | Cottage. Uncertain date. Possibly early C19 but could be as early as C17; restored 1991. Plastered stone rubble and cob, brick chimneyshafts, roofless (formerly thatch). PLAN: Cottage faces north-east. 2-room plan with rear lateral stack to north-west room and end stack to south-east room backing onto full-height agricultural extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-window front, left one in projecting bay. Doorway immediately right of projection and buttress further left. Large full height opening at left end. Rear has 3 ground-floor windows, 2 first-floor windows and 2 doorways. INTERIOR: Not available for inspection. The cottage is part of a group of exceptionally attractive buildings in Cockington Park and the adjacent unspoilt village. Listing NGR: SX8935863475 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390577 | Higher Lodge | 1293076 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.560139 50.462982,-3.560222 50.463061,-3.560293 50.463028,-3.560208 50.462950,-3.560139 50.462982))) | Lodge. Early C19. Plastered walls, mostly mass walls but oversailing front is timber-framed; red brick chimneyshaft; thatch roof. PLAN: Small 2-room plan cottage with central axial stack. North-west end is main front facing onto the drive, it contains the main doorway in verandah under oversailing first floor. EXTERIOR: Picturesque cottage ornee style. 2 storeys. Ground floor verandah under oversailing first floor, 5 bays with full-height tree trunk posts. 2-window front. Ground floor has front doorway to left containing early C20 partly glazed door. Casement to right and both first-floor doorways have triangular heads rising into eaves. Front windows contain diamond lights of leaded glass. Roof is hipped to the front and half-hipped to rear. Plain casement windows on other sides and C20 service lean-to to rear. One of an exceptionally picturesque group of listed buildings associated with Cockington Court (qv), the landscaped park and the unspoilt adjacent village. Listing NGR: SX8935863740 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390578 | Lower Lodge | 1206761 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.556292 50.461419,-3.556265 50.461404,-3.556268 50.461321,-3.556260 50.461304,-3.556231 50.461272,-3.556195 50.461270,-3.556184 50.461278,-3.556181 50.461317,-3.556215 50.461319,-3.556214 50.461363,-3.556176 50.461367,-3.556172 50.461406,-3.556185 50.461407,-3.556183 50.461427,-3.556291 50.461432,-3.556292 50.461419))) | Lodge. Early-mid C19. Local stone rubble with red sandstone quoins and Bathstone detail; gabled slate roof. PLAN: It is terraced into the hillslope and the sunken drive to Cockington Court (qv) passes through the middle whilst a lane is carried over the drive behind the lodge. Lodge has basically a 1-room plan either side of the drive. These break forward slightly as crosswings in front of the main block which links the wings over the drive carriage entrance. There are projecting gable-end stacks and a small projecting lateral stack to left of the carriage entrance. EXTERIOR: Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical front. Gabled projections each side of carriageway with kneelers and coping contain Tudor-style stone-mullioned window with iron glazing bars and saddlebars in front of diamond panes of leaded glass. Similar window in gabled half dormer which is corbelled out over the carriageway. Weathered buttress to right of carriageway and stack to left. Carriageway has round-headed arch with projecting keystone. Timber gates with good ferramenta. Inside the carriageway, the right wall includes a slit window in front of the gates and round-headed doorway containing original door to rear (similar doorway in left projecting front bay inner reveal). Left wall of carriageway includes a small niche. Main roof is lean-to against wall of raised lane (qv). Right-end stack contains round-headed niche. INTERIOR not inspected. Lower Lodge is one of a group of exceptionally attractive buidlings associated with Cockington Court (qv), its landscaped grounds, and the adjacent unspoilt village. Listing NGR: SX8963863555 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390579 | Walls, Bridges And Steps Of Lane Raised Over Drive To West Of Lower Lodge | 1293080 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.556265 50.461371,-3.556311 50.461372,-3.556311 50.461332,-3.556416 50.461336,-3.556417 50.461324,-3.556347 50.461321,-3.556348 50.461311,-3.556311 50.461304,-3.556313 50.461287,-3.556248 50.461287,-3.556268 50.461320,-3.556265 50.461371))) | Walls, bridge and steps associated with raised lane which carries a track over the drive to Cockington Court (qv) behind Lower Lodge (qv). Early or mid C19. Local stone rubble with red sandstone dressings. A lane off the south side of Cockington Lane is carried over the sunken drive directly behind Lower Lodge. The bridge is a continuation of the carriageway through the lodge and has a round arch. The lane is hidden from the drive by a tall parapet wall which contains a blind Tudor style limestone mullioned window and the wall is crenellated. On the south side of the drive a round-headed doorway gives access to stone steps up to another similar doorway through the parapet wall. The walls and steps form part of an exceptionally attractive group of listed buildings in Cockington Park and the adjacent unspoilt village. Listing NGR: SX8963063552 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390580 | The Cottage | 1206762 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.531422 50.487056,-3.531414 50.487050,-3.531362 50.487074,-3.531249 50.487136,-3.531300 50.487169,-3.531460 50.487086,-3.531422 50.487056))) | House. C17 or earlier. Cob and stone with thatched roof and external stone chimneys with offsets. 3-room plan with heated left-hand room and rear lateral stack to central hall. 2 storeys. C19 and C20 two-light casements, set in eyebrow dormers to first floor. C20 door. INTERIOR noted as having exposed beams. Listing NGR: SX9146266377 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390581 | 9, CROFT ROAD | 1208598 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.537046 50.467640,-3.537135 50.467696,-3.537192 50.467658,-3.537159 50.467636,-3.537168 50.467633,-3.537150 50.467618,-3.537134 50.467625,-3.537103 50.467602,-3.537046 50.467640))) | Terraced house. Late 1860s. Stuccoed; slate roof; stack with rendered shaft with platband. PLAN: Double-depth plan with central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front. Deep eaves with eaves band and modillion brackets; outer rusticated pilasters, shared with neighbouring houses. Half-glazed central front door with a rectangular panel; moulded architrave with keyblocks. 3 first and 2 ground floor windows, all with moulded architraves and keyblocks, all glazed with original 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. C20 balconies added to first-floor windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. Listing NGR: SX9100864221 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390582 | Allerdale Hotel | 1280085 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.535498 50.466571,-3.535509 50.466551,-3.535490 50.466547,-3.535498 50.466533,-3.535517 50.466537,-3.535617 50.466365,-3.535527 50.466344,-3.535533 50.466332,-3.535464 50.466316,-3.535458 50.466327,-3.535375 50.466308,-3.535350 50.466351,-3.535332 50.466347,-3.535312 50.466382,-3.535329 50.466386,-3.535312 50.466414,-3.535394 50.466433,-3.535386 50.466448,-3.535361 50.466442,-3.535333 50.466491,-3.535362 50.466498,-3.535341 50.466534,-3.535498 50.466571))) | Large detached villa, now in use as a hotel. c1875-76. C20 rear (north) addition. Solid wall construction, stuccoed with some traces of blocking out; hipped slate roof; stacks with dismantled shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep, approximately rectangular plan, principal rooms to the front (south), service wing to the rear. Entrance on east side into large hall, stairs rise off to north. 3-storey belvedere to north-west. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Regular but asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front, the centre bay broken forward under a pedimented gable with a wreath. Outer angle rusticated pilasters have first-floor Composite pilasters with cornices on modillion brackets, entablature above with faceted panels and clustered composite pilasters above. Shallow projecting Doric porch in centre with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet above C19 half-glazed front door with etched glass and deep overlight. Round-headed window above with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired composite pilasters. Left-hand bay has projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and an incised panel to the first floor. Right-hand bay has one ground and one first floor window with proud architraves. All windows glazed with probably original 4-pane plate glass windows. Other elevations in the same style. Belvedere has a hipped roof with deep eaves, each corner with a panelled chimney shaft with bracketed cornice. 2nd-storey tower elevations have round-headed triplet windows with moulded architraves and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Original features include open-well stair with turned balusters; original deep relief plaster cornices and joinery. Very similar in layout and style to the Howden Court Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the east. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay. Listing NGR: SX9112364078 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390583 | Howden Court Hotel | 1293050 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.535111 50.466443,-3.535201 50.466307,-3.535144 50.466298,-3.535148 50.466285,-3.535158 50.466287,-3.535168 50.466260,-3.535156 50.466257,-3.535169 50.466221,-3.535160 50.466219,-3.535175 50.466179,-3.535184 50.466182,-3.535224 50.466078,-3.535201 50.466075,-3.535204 50.466058,-3.535143 50.466048,-3.535137 50.466063,-3.535113 50.466060,-3.535107 50.466069,-3.535060 50.466062,-3.535056 50.466075,-3.535039 50.466073,-3.535034 50.466081,-3.534963 50.466070,-3.534950 50.466105,-3.534908 50.466098,-3.534892 50.466141,-3.534935 50.466148,-3.534919 50.466189,-3.534976 50.466198,-3.534945 50.466299,-3.535046 50.466315,-3.535019 50.466383,-3.535111 50.466443))) | Large detached villa, now in use as hotel. c1865-75; C20 south-west addition. Stuccoed; hipped slate roof; stacks with stuccoed shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep L-plan. Principal rooms to south, entrance on east side; service wing to north, north-east belvedere in angle between main block and wing. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Chimney shafts with faceted panels with modillion cornices. Most windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. 2-bay entrance elevation plus 1-bay to the belvedere set back to the right. Projecting centre bay under pedimented gable with a wreath. Doric porch with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet to first floor balcony above. Round-headed first-floor window with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired Composite columns. Left-hand bay has outer pilaster, rusticated to the ground floor with a cornice with modillion brackets at first floor level and paired composite pilasters above. Bay has shallow projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and panelled decoration to the first floor. To the right a 3-storey belevedere in the same style, the second stage corbelled out on brackets, with triplet of round-headed second-floor windows having moulded architraves with keyblocks and balustraded balconies. Other elevations of the villa in the same style. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to contain original features. Very similar in layout and style to the Allerdale Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the west. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay. Listing NGR: SX9124864053 | 1974-05-01 | 1974-05-01 | ||||
| 390584 | Parkhill | 1206763 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.517205 50.457210,-3.517257 50.457215,-3.517254 50.457227,-3.517289 50.457230,-3.517292 50.457216,-3.517325 50.457219,-3.517324 50.457225,-3.517347 50.457226,-3.517342 50.457261,-3.517420 50.457266,-3.517425 50.457232,-3.517438 50.457233,-3.517445 50.457190,-3.517463 50.457190,-3.517486 50.457167,-3.517512 50.457168,-3.517525 50.457090,-3.517359 50.457079,-3.517358 50.457087,-3.517228 50.457081,-3.517205 50.457210))) | Villa, divided into two. c1850. Local grey limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped slate roof; stack with ashlar shaft with platband. PLAN: Double-depth approximately rectangular plan with an angled entrance facing south-west. EXTERIOR: Description approximate as access unobtainable at time of survey. 2 storeys. Deep boxed eaves; vermiculated rusticted quoins, ashlar voussoirs and quoins to principal windows 1:1:2-window entrance front, canted porch in angle to left has moulded cornice at first-floor level and plain rectangular doorway below a 12-pane sash. Tripartite ground-floor sash to left. 2 first floor 12-pane sashes, ground-floor windows reglazed as plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Listing NGR: SX9238363028 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390585 | The Railway Inn | 1208618 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.538792 50.470083,-3.538810 50.470070,-3.538736 50.469923,-3.538697 50.469914,-3.538556 50.470011,-3.538559 50.470026,-3.538792 50.470083))) | Public house. c1860s. Stuccoed; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Principal 3-bay elevation to East Street divided by pilasters, rusticated on the ground floor; first-floor platband. 4 first-floor 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars and plain eared architraves. 2 round-headed doorways in centre bay with pilasters, moulded architraves, key blocks and plain fanlights. Tripartite sash to the right-hand bay with a plain architrave. High transomed 2-light bar window to the left with a floating cornice on slender moulded brackets; glass etched with 'The Railway Hotel'. Entrance bay to left in canted corner in a similar style. Round-headed doorway with pilasters, moulded architrave and key block; first-floor 4-pane sash window with horizontal glazing bars. Canted corner to right has round-headed ground-floor window with pilasters, moulded architrave and key block, first-floor sash to match others. The other elevations are plainer but retain original windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Listing NGR: SX9090264485 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390586 | Edginswell Farmhouse | 1280047 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569730 50.484013,-3.569795 50.483957,-3.569636 50.483881,-3.569621 50.483894,-3.569554 50.483864,-3.569446 50.483963,-3.569512 50.483994,-3.569572 50.483937,-3.569730 50.484013))) | Farmhouse. C17 wing (ruinous on survey); house probably an early C19 recasting of a C17 original, with later addition. House roughcast with gabled slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts. Wing of local red sandstone rubble; largely roofless and overgrown. PLAN: Single-depth rectangular main block, facing north. This may have been the hall range (front lateral stack) rebuilt at the west end. East end crosswing projects to the front. This is 2 rooms on plan, roofless and largely ruinous. The north end wall masonry is different and the gable end may have been rebuilt. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:1-window front, the roofline lower over the right end. Front door at right end of left-hand block with 4-panel door with overlight with glazing bars. Large 2- and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars. The wing has a 3-window west front with a C19 door to the left. 2 ground-floor windows, the right-hand window 3-light with an ovolo-moulded C17 wood-mullioned window; one first-floor window. The east elevation has one similar ovolo-moulded mullioned window. INTERIOR: Main range not inspected. The rear ruin of the wing retains its ground floor ceiling with plastered-over crossbeams. Listing NGR: SX8873466083 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390587 | Barn On North East Side Of South West Farmyard At Edginswell Farmhouse | 1208636 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569692 50.484174,-3.569944 50.484289,-3.569995 50.484243,-3.569743 50.484129,-3.569692 50.484174))) | Threshing barn. Probably late C18 in origin, extended in the early C19. Earlier part cob on local red sandstone dressings; addition local red sandstone rubble with raise of cob under the eaves. Corrugated-iron roof, gabled at ends. PLAN: Original barn of 6 bays (5 trusses) with a large threshing doorway on the south-west side and smaller rear opposed doorway. Barn extended to the south-east with another 5 trusses, and second large doorway on front. EXTERIOR: South-west side has 2 large doorways with timber lintels, paired doors with strap hinges. INTERIOR: Very tall, typical of the South Hams area. Trusses are pegged 'A'-frames with butt collars, the later trusses of more slender scantling. Hipped end of original roof preserved. A good example of a South Hams threshing barn and part of a good group of traditional farmbuildings. Listing NGR: SX8872466114 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390588 | Calf House At North West End Of South West Farmyard At Edginswell Farmhouse | 1206764 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569959 50.484275,-3.569944 50.484289,-3.570002 50.484315,-3.570111 50.484274,-3.570069 50.484241,-3.570040 50.484251,-3.570037 50.484245,-3.569959 50.484275))) | Farmbuilding, probably calf house. Probably late C19. Rear wall stone rubble; corrugated-iron roof, gabled at ends; front elevation clad with corrugated-iron. PLAN: Encloses farmyard on the north-west side. EXTERIOR: Doorway at left end, with one plank door intact. INTERIOR: Brick feeding troughs. Roof: 2 'A'-frame trusses of very slight scantling with nailed joints. Included for group value with Edginswell Farmhouse (qv) and other agricultural buildings. Listing NGR: SX8871166120 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390589 | Cider House/Cartshed On South Side Of South West Farmyard At Edginswell Farm | 1208641 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569746 50.484081,-3.569949 50.484174,-3.570005 50.484123,-3.569802 50.484031,-3.569746 50.484081))) | Cider house/cartshed and shippon. Probably C18 in origin, altered in the C19. Local grey limestone and red sandstone and cob; corrugated-iron roof, hipped at ends (formerly thatched). PLAN: Roofed on a north-west/south-east axis and forming part of the south-west range of a narrow farmyard. EXTERIOR: Single storey. On the yard (north) side the building projects to the front at the left end; steps up to doorway at right end; one high window with timber lintel. Roofline drops to right in centre. The outer elevation has 2 large cart entrances to the right with brick segmental arched heads. To the left a smaller doorway is flanked by windows. INTERIOR: Roof concealed by insulating material. Screw-action cider press, probably late C19, in left end section. Listing NGR: SX8872066101 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390590 | Linhay On South Side Of North East Farmyard At Edginswell Farmhouse | 12080048 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569212 50.484089,-3.569415 50.484176,-3.569460 50.484139,-3.569332 50.484078,-3.569244 50.484048,-3.569212 50.484089))) | Linhay. Probably early C19, now part of Edginswell Farm (qv) but probably originally associated with Higher Court Farm, to the north. Local red sandstone rubble with some local grey limestone; corrugated-iron roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends. PLAN: Forms the south-west side of a large farmyard. Linhay of 3 wide, open-fronted bays; loft dismantled. EXTERIOR: Bays on north-east side divided by large cylindrical columns. Rear elevation, backing onto the lane, has a cart doorway. INTERIOR: 12 pegged 'A'-frame trusses with butt collars. Forms a good group of traditional farmbuildings with other listed buildings in the yard. Listing NGR: SX8876266100 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390591 | Linhay On South West Side Of South West Farmyard At Edginswell Farm | 1206765 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569966 50.484158,-3.570109 50.484274,-3.570166 50.484246,-3.570007 50.484123,-3.569966 50.484158))) | Linhay. Probably late C18/early C19. Local red sandstone rubble; corrugated-iron roof, hipped at right end, adjoining cider-house/cartshed at left end. PLAN: Lofted linhay of 2 bays plus link bay with adjoining building to left. EXTERIOR: Plain, substantial linhay with broad stone piers dividing the bays, which are open-fronted; open-fronted loft above. Rear elevation has pair large double doors into bay adjacent to building to left. INTERIOR: Brick feeding troughs and some timber mangers survive. Loft floor open at rear for dropping hay into feeding racks. Brick floor. Roof: Pegged 'A'-frame trusses of a late C18/early C19 character. Listing NGR: SX8871066111 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390592 | Shippon And Cider House At West End Of North East Farmyard At Edginswell Farmhouse | 1206766 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569316 50.484258,-3.569280 50.484272,-3.569223 50.484321,-3.569290 50.484357,-3.569385 50.484309,-3.569528 50.484185,-3.569449 50.484147,-3.569316 50.484258))) | Shippon and cider house. Early C19 cob on local stone rubble footings; corrugated-iron roof (formerly thatched), hipped at left end, joined to threshing barn at right end. PLAN: Long rectangular plan with a doorway on the front to left of centre. Building broadens to the right at the junction with the barn where it has been used as a cider house. EXTERIOR: Single-storey and loft. Doorway with timber lintel; small window to left, larger window to right, both unglazed. Front of cider house also has an unglazed window. Loft door to left, 2 loft windows to right. Row of 4 depressions in cob at loft level may have been bee holes. INTERIOR: Rear feeding passage. Large screw-press cider press in cider house. Roof: 8 pegged 'A'-frame trusses with butt collars. Forms part of a good group of traditional agricultural buildings. Listing NGR: SX8875666116 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390593 | Shippon/Stable On East Side Of South West Farmyard At Edginswell Farm | 1280049 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569575 50.484129,-3.569634 50.484154,-3.569744 50.484043,-3.569686 50.484020,-3.569575 50.484129))) | Farmbuilding, probably a shippon or stable. C19. Cob and stone rubble with sections of brick repair; thatched roof, hipped at ends with corrugated-iron over. PLAN: At right-angles to Edginswell Farmhouse (qv) backing onto the garden and forming the east side of a narrow farmyard. EXTERIOR: Partly lofted. One window plus remains of another; 2 doorways; one loft window. The front has been very rebuilt to right of the main doorway and the front is partly timber. INTERIOR: Left end lofted. Right end has been used for livestock with brick feeding troughs on stone bases and a paved floor. Loft appears to be C19. Stone paving to central section. Roof: 7 'A'-frame trusses, heavily repaired and in poor condition. Included for group value. Listing NGR: SX8873866100 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390594 | Threshing Barn On North East Side Of North East Farmyard At Edginswell Farmhouse | 1206767 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.568986 50.484197,-3.569223 50.484320,-3.569281 50.484270,-3.569044 50.484152,-3.568986 50.484197))) | Threshing barn. Probably early C19. Cob on stone rubble footings, some brick repair. Corrugated-iron roof gabled at right end, joined with roof of adjacent shippon/cider house at left (formerly thatched). PLAN: Large threshing barn with 2 threshing floors. EXTERIOR: South-west side, facing the yard, has 2 pairs of large double doors under timber lintels. Opposed doors on rear elevation. INTERIOR: 12 pegged 'A'-frame trusses with butt collars, augmented by secondary collars. Part of a good group of traditional farmbuildings at Edginswell Farmhouse (qqv). Listing NGR: SX8877866114 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390595 | Edginswell Hall | 1280050 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.571843 50.484725,-3.571933 50.484715,-3.571926 50.484688,-3.571938 50.484686,-3.571889 50.484515,-3.571800 50.484525,-3.571803 50.484536,-3.571658 50.484552,-3.571656 50.484543,-3.571577 50.484552,-3.571606 50.484657,-3.571817 50.484632,-3.571843 50.484725))) | Formerly known as: Edginswell House EDGINSWELL LANE. Marked on OS as Edginswell House. House. Probably late 1830s or early 1840s. Rendered; slate roof, hipped at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular plan with central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves with paired brackets; eaves band. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front with substantial Roman Doric porch, the entablature decorated with laurel wreaths in relief below a deep projecting cornice. Round-headed doorway with panelled reveals; panelled door with fanlight with spider's web glazing bars. Outer windows are 12-pane early C19 sashes. First-floor window centre a round-headed sash with intersecting glazing bars. Access to other elevations unobtainable on survey. 1975 List description refers to rear wing with flush frame sashes. 3-window return with canted bay to south. This front extends back with 2 flanking hipped roof bays - 6 flush framed sashes recessed for one order on first floor, ground floor altered c1900 with casements and French windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Listing NGR: SX8858666158 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390596 | Ivy Cottage | 1206768 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.566267 50.484761,-3.566333 50.484799,-3.566310 50.484816,-3.566369 50.484850,-3.566468 50.484779,-3.566408 50.484744,-3.566387 50.484759,-3.566321 50.484722,-3.566267 50.484761))) | Small house. C18 or earlier, extended and remodelled 1980s. Plastered cob and stone cottage; thatched roof, half-hipped at ends. PLAN: Overall T-plan. House sited high above the road with a single depth main block with a large projecting stack at the right end. 1980s rear wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: Tall 2-window roadside front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the single first-floor window. 2 ground-floor windows, all glazed with small-pane timber casements. Left return has a 2-light first-floor casement and C20 outshut with a lean-to roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Listing NGR: SX8897266173 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390597 | Parish Church Of Christ Church | 1209769 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.523954 50.471717,-3.523964 50.471709,-3.523966 50.471701,-3.523959 50.471700,-3.523971 50.471651,-3.523981 50.471641,-3.523972 50.471640,-3.523983 50.471593,-3.523992 50.471594,-3.523999 50.471564,-3.523968 50.471562,-3.523972 50.471546,-3.523844 50.471537,-3.523845 50.471529,-3.523832 50.471528,-3.523830 50.471535,-3.523783 50.471530,-3.523785 50.471523,-3.523770 50.471522,-3.523769 50.471529,-3.523725 50.471524,-3.523726 50.471519,-3.523711 50.471518,-3.523710 50.471524,-3.523625 50.471509,-3.523624 50.471514,-3.523547 50.471507,-3.523539 50.471499,-3.523529 50.471503,-3.523536 50.471511,-3.523531 50.471534,-3.523522 50.471534,-3.523520 50.471544,-3.523527 50.471544,-3.523522 50.471566,-3.523472 50.471563,-3.523475 50.471552,-3.523461 50.471551,-3.523459 50.471560,-3.523452 50.471559,-3.523450 50.471567,-3.523458 50.471567,-3.523443 50.471597,-3.523450 50.471598,-3.523446 50.471618,-3.523439 50.471617,-3.523437 50.471626,-3.523445 50.471627,-3.523442 50.471637,-3.523448 50.471638,-3.523439 50.471675,-3.523483 50.471685,-3.523495 50.471697,-3.523537 50.471701,-3.523550 50.471688,-3.523599 50.471693,-3.523603 50.471679,-3.523649 50.471680,-3.523667 50.471682,-3.523666 50.471688,-3.523678 50.471689,-3.523680 50.471682,-3.523731 50.471687,-3.523730 50.471693,-3.523742 50.471694,-3.523743 50.471688,-3.523796 50.471692,-3.523794 50.471699,-3.523805 50.471700,-3.523806 50.471694,-3.523860 50.471699,-3.523859 50.471706,-3.523872 50.471707,-3.523873 50.471701,-3.523941 50.471708,-3.523939 50.471716,-3.523954 50.471717))) | Parish church. 1868 to the designs of Habershon, Brock and Webb. Chancel and south-east chapel by Tait and Harvey, 1907, aisle 1889 by Richards and Harrison. Snecked local grey limestone rubble; freestone dressings; slate roof. PLAN: Chancel; nave; 4-bay south aisle; south-west tower incorporating porch; north-east vestry; south-east chapel. EXTERIOR: Chancel lower than nave. South side (show front) consists of the buttressed south aisle with a lean-to roof and 2-light Geometric Decorated-style traceried windows. 3-stage tower to west, square on plan to the bottom stage with a south-east stair turret which has a moulded south doorway with stiff-leaf capitals to the responds; gabled hoodmould and original boarded door with good ironwork. Lancet windows above. Belfry stage with canted corners has louvred lancet windows with a stone batter below tall lucarnes; stone spire. The south-east chapel is snecked ashlar with diagonal buttresses, a parapet, hipped roof and trefoil-headed one-light windows: one to the south side and two to the east. Chancel with same masonry finish as the chapel, has moulded string courses, angle buttresses and a central buttress in the east wall; 5-light Geometric Decorated traceried east window. North side of nave has Geometric Decorated traceried windows. INTERIOR: Moulded chancel arch with text in Lombardic script; chancel roof a boarded, keeled wagon with moulded ribs and carved bosses. Unusually tall nave, the roof idiosyncratic: 5-and-a-half bays with intermediate trusses. Main trusses arch-braced with queen posts above the tie supporting a scissor-braced apex with braces from the queen posts both to the purlins and principal rafters. Intermediate trusses are also arch-braced with king posts. All trusses spring from stone corbels. The 4-bay south arcade has remarkable slender cast-iron columns of quatrefoil section and wrought-iron capitals below an iron plate that supports the thick chamfered arches. West end gallery glazed in with elaborate Gothic front. The chancel has 2-bay arcades into the side chapels with cylindrical columns and moulded arches. Sedilia with traceried segmental arch and pendant. FITTINGS: Chancel fittings of early C20; timber blind traceried reredos; Purbeck marble ashlar chancel screen. Octagonal pulpit with pierced roundels is contemporary with chancel screen. Font with small bowl on slender stem. 1918 war memorial window possibly by Hugh Easton. (Brooks C, Cherry M and Cox J: Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project Archive). Listing NGR: SX9196164643 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390598 | 3-39, ELLACOMBE ROAD | 1280051 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.527523 50.470928,-3.527637 50.470904,-3.527637 50.470886,-3.527600 50.470893,-3.527582 50.470856,-3.527598 50.470853,-3.527582 50.470815,-3.527605 50.470811,-3.527601 50.470790,-3.527572 50.470788,-3.527561 50.470767,-3.527633 50.470754,-3.527634 50.470710,-3.527543 50.470720,-3.527535 50.470696,-3.527637 50.470676,-3.527644 50.470647,-3.527518 50.470649,-3.527511 50.470626,-3.527587 50.470618,-3.527584 50.470598,-3.527577 50.470598,-3.527571 50.470577,-3.527496 50.470579,-3.527486 50.470547,-3.527547 50.470544,-3.527533 50.470501,-3.527471 50.470501,-3.527468 50.470469,-3.527522 50.470469,-3.527525 50.470450,-3.527607 50.470452,-3.527612 50.470416,-3.527522 50.470412,-3.527518 50.470429,-3.527455 50.470425,-3.527455 50.470392,-3.527543 50.470395,-3.527548 50.470346,-3.527449 50.470340,-3.527449 50.470307,-3.527461 50.470307,-3.527461 50.470315,-3.527554 50.470322,-3.527570 50.470266,-3.527452 50.470264,-3.527458 50.470230,-3.527514 50.470234,-3.527512 50.470243,-3.527533 50.470245,-3.527545 50.470183,-3.527526 50.470181,-3.527524 50.470188,-3.527468 50.470182,-3.527475 50.470144,-3.527536 50.470150,-3.527533 50.470158,-3.527553 50.470160,-3.527564 50.470106,-3.527483 50.470098,-3.527486 50.470082,-3.527502 50.470083,-3.527507 50.470064,-3.527573 50.470078,-3.527588 50.470014,-3.527568 50.470013,-3.527567 50.470021,-3.527507 50.470015,-3.527516 50.469979,-3.527597 50.469987,-3.527610 50.469934,-3.527591 50.469932,-3.527588 50.469941,-3.527527 50.469935,-3.527535 50.469901,-3.527661 50.469923,-3.527678 50.469854,-3.527627 50.469849,-3.527623 50.469866,-3.527545 50.469859,-3.527554 50.469824,-3.527645 50.469833,-3.527662 50.469771,-3.527569 50.469760,-3.527573 50.469743,-3.527667 50.469753,-3.527679 50.469706,-3.527585 50.469695,-3.527589 50.469680,-3.527593 50.469666,-3.527687 50.469676,-3.527702 50.469620,-3.527699 50.469628,-3.527604 50.469618,-3.527616 50.469585,-3.527696 50.469593,-3.527709 50.469548,-3.527625 50.469539,-3.527635 50.469502,-3.527730 50.469512,-3.527743 50.469464,-3.527646 50.469453,-3.527663 50.469387,-3.527546 50.469373,-3.527367 50.470084,-3.527346 50.470193,-3.527329 50.470409,-3.527424 50.470722,-3.527523 50.470928))) | Terrace of 37 houses. Probably 1870s, following the opening up of the Ellacombe Valley by Sir Lawrence Palk for working men's dwellings. Designed by JW Rowell. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with brick dressings (now mostly painted); slate roofs; stacks with brick shafts with corbelled cornices (now mostly rendered). PLAN: A long terrace built overlooking Ellacombe Green, presented by Palk to the town in 1869, the date of his son's majority. Terrace arranged in pairs: single-depth blocks, one room wide, with front doors to the centre; end stacks. Each pair has a central rear service wing at right-angles, divided between the houses; some of these retain end stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, some towards the bottom of the hill, with basements. The pairs alternate between those with small gables to the front and those with gabled dormers. Each house has steps up to a front door with a crank-headed fanlight. 3-light high-transomed adjacent ground-floor window, with brick quoins, also with a cranked arch; 2-light similar first-floor crank-headed window. There have been some alterations to windows and doors. The original front doors appear either to have been 4-panel or vertical boarding. Original windows are high transomed casements with planted chamfered mouldings; original chimney pots have plain glazed cylinders. No.26 is a shop and may always have been one. Late C19/early C20 symmetrical shopfront with outer pilasters with incised Greek key decoration and a fascia with a cornice. Central recessed shop door, glazed with a low panel. Nos 33, 35 and 35 have carved heads on key blocks. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. With the group in Princes Road (qv), these form part of an exceptionally well-planned and designed group of mid C19 workers' housing. Listing NGR: SX9170564512 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390599 | The Country House Public House | 1206770 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.527346 50.470942,-3.527284 50.470839,-3.527059 50.470903,-3.527056 50.471065,-3.527425 50.471080,-3.527403 50.471041,-3.527343 50.471039,-3.527299 50.470955,-3.527346 50.470942))) | Public House. Late 1850s. Local grey limestone rubble with painted banding; slate roof; stacks with brick or rendered shafts. Same materials and style as the domestic buildings in the development. PLAN: The main block has a deep rectangular plan, rear service/stable wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3:1-window entrance front, the 4 bays irregular in size and either under gables or half-hips, the right end bay set-back and in a lower-roofed block. 2 ground-floor crank-headed windows, glazed with high-transomed casements. Small half-glazed verandah across front with a lean-to roof and 2 gables to the front, entrance into left return of verandah. 4 first-floor crank-headed windows glazed with various plate-glass sashes. The left return has shallow projecting chimneyshafts on either side of a canted bay window on the ground floor. This has a parapet and is glazed with plate-glass sashes. The eaves are gabled over the first-floor window above, which is crank-headed and similarly glazed. 3-bay service wing to the rear in similar style. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Included as a part of the Ellacombe Road development of artisan housing. Listing NGR: SX9171864586 | 1994-05-02 | 1994-05-02 | ||||
| 390600 | 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET | 1292993 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.525751 50.462947,-3.525812 50.462986,-3.525833 50.462972,-3.525802 50.462951,-3.525818 50.462942,-3.525854 50.462970,-3.525947 50.462914,-3.525841 50.462842,-3.525768 50.462821,-3.525690 50.462828,-3.525708 50.462860,-3.525707 50.462891,-3.525741 50.462889,-3.525791 50.462923,-3.525751 50.462947))) | Bank. 1889. Built as the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank. Bathstone ashlar to the front; brick to the rear; slate roof with lead rolls; stack with stone shaft with moulded cornice. Very festive classical style (Pevsner). PLAN: On a corner site, the front obtusely angled with entrance to banking hall in canted corner bay. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 4:1:2-bay front. Rusticated pilasters to left and right; deeply projecting dentil cornice at second-floor level, more delicate eaves dentil cornice. Ground-floor bays divided by engaged Doric columns with entablature; first floor with Ionic columns, the capitals enriched with grape carving with balustraded parapets to the windows which have eared architraves and carved panels above the lintels. Second-floor windows divided by carved panels. Canted corner rusticated to ground and first floor; pediment with foliage carving and datestone. Grand entrance with fluted Doric columns supporting deep moulded brackets to a first-floor balcony with a balustrade pierced with roundels. First-floor window with a moulded architrave and decoratively carved cornice on brackets. Ground-floor windows C20; office door in right-hand bay in pilastered doorcase. First- and second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Banking hall with coffered ceiling with egg-and-dart moulding. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: P.857). Listing NGR: SX9179863677 | 1975-01-10 | 1975-01-10 | ||||
| 390601 | The Post Office | 1280052 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.526280 50.464785,-3.526703 50.464810,-3.526730 50.464757,-3.526740 50.464677,-3.526734 50.464620,-3.526722 50.464619,-3.526711 50.464577,-3.526721 50.464576,-3.526673 50.464432,-3.526517 50.464456,-3.526532 50.464500,-3.526250 50.464522,-3.526239 50.464532,-3.526280 50.464785))) | Post Office. Opened 1912. Built under the supervision of John Rutherford, architect to H.M. Office of Works; cost over »12,000 (Ellis). Portland and Bathstone ashlar; slate roof. Baroque style. PLAN: Central entrance into office, archway to right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 7 bays, the outer bays set back. Rusticated ground floor with quoins. Deeply-projecting cornice on brackets with a blocking course carrying a balustraded parapet. First-floor string course. Central doorway with a moulded architrave with window over below a segmental-headed pediment on consoles. Outer round-headed recesses with moulded keystones: window in left recess, archway in right recess. First-floor windows with moulded architraves with keystones; centre window with broken pediment, others with segmental-headed pediments. Outer bays have second-floor oculi with swags. Contemporary gas light fixed to front. INTERIOR: Altered. (Ellis C A: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.330). Listing NGR: SX9174863870 | 1986-08-15 | 1986-08-15 | ||||
| 390602 | 15, FORE STREET | 1208752 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.528046 50.488731,-3.527969 50.488655,-3.527739 50.488751,-3.527786 50.488796,-3.527881 50.488757,-3.527904 50.488780,-3.528046 50.488731))) | Farmhouse, now house. Late C17. Plastered mass walls; thatched roof, replaced with corrugated asbestos to rear of ridge; stacks with rendered shafts, left end stack projecting. PLAN: Single-depth, 3-room plan, higher end to the right, entrance faces stair. Rear left outshut. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. Entrance to left of centre with a fine moulded timber C17 doorframe, plank door with strap hinges and probably original overlight. Windows small 2-light casements with galzing bars. C20 glazed door onto small section of C20 verandah across front. INTERIOR: Centre room has a boxed-in cross beam. Right-hand room (divided into 2) has a chamfered axial beam with runout stops. First floor preserves a 2-panel door. Other features likely to be concealed behind modern plaster. Roof: Feet of of principal rafters visible upstairs are straight, apex of roof not seen on survey. A handsome late C17 farmhouse, now in a suburban setting. Listing NGR: SX9170966551 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390603 | 19, FORE STREET | 1208760 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.528175 50.488864,-3.528245 50.488839,-3.528182 50.488771,-3.528126 50.488792,-3.528123 50.488808,-3.528101 50.488816,-3.528141 50.488862,-3.528165 50.488853,-3.528175 50.488864))) | Small house, originally one build with No.21 (qv), adjoining at left. Probably C18 or earlier in origin. Plastered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof, half-hipped at right end; stack to rear with stone rubble shaft. PLAN: Single-depth main block with a passage entrance flanked by rooms; addition to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. All windows 2- and 3-light timber casements with glazing bars. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the single first-floor window. C20 front door to left of centre, flanked by windows. One first and one second-floor window in the right end wall. INTERIOR: Some exposed carpentry. Listing NGR: SX9169266563 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 | ||||
| 390604 | 21, FORE STREET | 1206771 | MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.528201 50.488929,-3.528298 50.488897,-3.528245 50.488839,-3.528149 50.488874,-3.528201 50.488929))) | Small house, originally one build with No.19 (qv), adjoining at right. Probably C17 or earlier in origin. Plastered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof, hipped at left end; left end stack with truncated plastered shaft, axial stack at junction with No.19 with low stone rubble shaft. PLAN: Single-depth plan to main block, rear addition. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window front with a central C20 front door. 2 ground and 2 first-floor timber casement windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest including an early roof structure. Listing NGR: SX9168866570 | 1952-11-20 | 1952-11-20 |
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