Description

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9472 DEN CRESCENT
25-1/7/135 Riviera Cinema
30/06/49

GV II

Assembly Rooms. 1826 by Andrew Patey of Exeter. Restored and
altered 1934. Neoclassical style. Rectangular plan with stair
turret to rear right.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range. A cornice and
blocking course surround the building, C20 additions to the
roof. A projecting ground floor has 8 unfluted Greek Doric
columns in antis; the upper floors have 1934 ornamental
windows (good of their type) articulated by an Ionic grand
order of 4 central columns supporting a pediment flanked by
pilasters. Windows to the returns are blind, those to the
right return are later C19 with moulded architraves, some are
tripartite with cornices on consoles. C20 shops to the ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected but known to be altered following
conversion into a cinema in mid C20.
The centrepiece of an elegant planned layout by Patey which
forms an overall crescent facing the sea, flanked by
Nos 6-10 and 1-5 (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon:
London: 1989-: 799).

Listing NGR: SX9411972825

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682914

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)