Description

TORQUAY
SX9263 BABBACOMBE ROAD
(North West side)
885-1/18/22
Nos.479-503 (Odd)
03/05/94

GV II

Terrace of 13 houses. c1865-1875. Stuccoed and blocked out; flat roofs concealed behind parapets; stacks with rendered shafts, some retaining moulded cornices. PLAN : Each house double-depth on plan with rear service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Each house has a 3-window front; eaves band with sunk panels below deep projecting cornice and balustraded parapet; corbelled brackets at party walls. Windows have ovolo-moulded architraves and are glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars; horizontal glazing bars to sashes to No 497. 4-panel front doors in the centre with plain overlights to porch hood on consoles. 2-tier canted bay to left with a moulded cornice at first floor level and sill band to first floor windows. Ground-floor window right with pilaster strips and a floating cornice on brackets. INTERIOR: Some houses preserve staircases with turned balusters. Other features of interest may survive. Group value. A complete example of a terrace of this type and date.

Listing NGR: SX9261163778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501922

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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