Description

TORQUAY

SX8963 GREENWAY ROAD, Chelston
885-1/16/465 (West side)
Tresillian and Moffats

GV II

Large villa. c1870. Stuccoed; hipped slate roof with pierced
terracotta ridge tiles and finials; stacks with rendered
shafts with cornices and terracotta pots.
PLAN: House built over basement with ground floor terrace over
garden front. Deep rectangular plan with entrance into a
hallway with stairs rising off to the right. Service block
(Moffats) to right in same ownership but separate occupation.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Rusticated quoins to ground
floor; deep eaves, eaves and verges band; platband at first
floor level, moulded string at first floor cill level, sunk
panels under windows. Pilastered or moulded architraves to
windows of main block, glazed with 2-pane plate-glass sashes.
Service block plainer with dismantled chimney shafts.
2-window entrance elevation to Tresillian; shallow projecting
stack to left, centre bay broken forward and gable contains
the porch with a pilastered round-headed doorway with moulded
arch; 6-panel door with plain fanlight and original floor
tiles, and shallow projecting gabled porch.
Garden elevation on left return has two 2-storey canted bays
and narrow central windows. In front the terrace extends over
a 3-bay arcade of segmental arches in front of the basement.
INTERIOR: Very complete including joinery - doors, skirtings;
stair with turned balusters; elaborate plasterwork friezes.
Included as a very complete example of a middle-sized High
Victorian Torbay villa, typical of the developments in
Chelston.

Listing NGR: SX8989563878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501974

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House