Description

TORQUAY

SX9264SW HIGHER WARBERRY ROAD
885-1/20/112 (South side)
Gresford

GV II

Villa. c1870s. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with rendered
shafts with deep projecting cornices. Italianate style.
PLAN: Double-depth rectangular plan with a projecting
south-east corner tower. Entrance on the east side into a
large, heated stair hall. North service wing separately
occupied.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves and verges on shaped paired
brackets. Asymmetrical 1:1-window east front, the tower to the
left with a deep hipped roof, corbelled out on shaped
brackets.
The entrance block is gabled to the front with verge band,
platband and pilaster strips. Projecting flat-roofed porch
with paired pilasters, entablature and dentil cornice below
parapet. Round-headed doorway with pilasters, moulded arch and
keyblock. Panelled front door with plain fanlight;
round-headed windows to the returns.
First-floor segmental-headed window with moulded, eared,
shouldered architrave, glazed with a tripartite sash.
Bottom stage of tower has round-headed windows with sill
blocks, one to each face; upper stage with similar windows,
linked by superordinate moulded arch with keyblocks.
Garden elevation has 2-storey canted bays with cornices and a
C20 first-floor bowed, cast-iron balcony between, balcony
glazed in.
INTERIOR: Rich in original and some imported features.
Open-well stair with turned balusters and secondary bronze
figures supporting lamps on the newel posts. Original plaster
cornices, joinery etc and white Italian marble chimneypieces.
Porch has original tiled floor. Stained glass in entrance
hall. Dining room contains fine chimneypiece with massive
sculpted figures, said to be copy of an Italian original and
introduced into the house this century.
HISTORY: The house is said to have been lived in by Lord
Haldon at one time but no corroborative information found to
date.
A good example of a large Torquay villa, still in use as a
house and with lavish interior detail.

Listing NGR: SX9234364191

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501980

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey