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Cavendish Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Torquay, Torbay

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4667 / 50°28'0"N

Longitude: -3.5382 / 3°32'17"W

OS Eastings: 290930

OS Northings: 64119

OS Grid: SX909641

Mapcode National: GBR QV.X2KR

Mapcode Global: FRA 37GT.KDZ

Plus Code: 9C2RFF86+MP

Entry Name: Cavendish Hotel

Listing Date: 29 October 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1206734

English Heritage Legacy ID: 390506

ID on this website: 101206734

Location: Torre, Torbay, Devon, TQ2

County: Torbay

Electoral Ward/Division: Tormohun

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Torquay

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Torre All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


TORQUAY

SX9064 BELGRAVE ROAD 885-1/13/43 (East side) 29/10/74 Cavendish Hotel

GV II

Large villa, now hotel. c1860s. Plastered; slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts and bracketed cornices. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with a 4-storey entrance tower. Deep eaves on moulded brackets or with exposed rafter ends. Windows mostly glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Long asymmetrical front with 3 windows to the ground floor plus the fenestration of a semicircular corner turret at the right end. Entrance tower to right of centre, slightly broken forward with moulded strings and a Roman Doric porch with distyle columns in antis, triglyph frieze and cornice. Tower windows single, paired or triplet round-headed sashes with stuccoed moulded hoodmoulds springing from bosses with a keyblock feature at the apex. 3-stage, semicircular turret to right has a low conical roof and similar windows divided by pilasters with capitals. Gabled 2-storey projection to left of centre has deep eaves brackets and one ground and 2 first-floor windows. 2 triplet round-headed windows to first floor of main range. Second-floor windows, some arranged in pairs, have sill blocks and shaped moulded architraves. Secondary bay window, inserted on ground floor to left of doorway. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9093064119

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