Description

TORQUAY

SX9265 BABBACOMBE ROAD, Babbacombe
885-1/12/313 (South West side)
St Anne's Hall

GV II

Hall, used as men's club. 1883 (datestone). Snecked local grey
limestone with yellow freestone dressings; peg-tile roofs,
hipped and half-hipped with crested ridge tiles; stacks with
tall brick clustered shafts with corbelled caps. Arts and
Crafts style.
PLAN: Roofed on a south-west/north-east axis, at right-angles
to the Babbacombe Road, with 3 wings off the south-east side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Hall roof half-hipped at ends with
ventilation pots in ridge, wings with hipped roofs.
Stone-mullioned windows, the large ones with transoms, glazed
with leaded panes; moulded string. 1:2-window north-east front
plus porch block to right. Attractive half-hipped end of hall
in the centre with buttresses and a central buttress with
gabled top. Deep eaves and verges with bargeboards with cusped
and pierced detail, supported on curved timber brackets
springing from buttresses. 2 segmental-headed basement
windows; 2-first floor windows with 2 transoms and cusped
heads to the lights.
The wing, to the left, has a half-dormer with a hipped roof.
Porch block to right has a moulded stone doorway with an
ogival peak; original paired plank doors and a 3-light
traceried overlight with stained glass. 5-window left return
with a doorway to the left, triangular dormers and 2 minor
flat-roofed additions. South-west end of hall similar in style
but slightly plainer than entrance elevation; battered corner
to wing to right.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest
including the original roof.
A good example of an Arts & Crafts style building, the
exterior very complete.

Listing NGR: SX9270065297

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501924

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