Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/123 (West side) St Anthony including garden wall and gate piers

GV II

Shown on 1866 OS Map as Elm Cottage. House, subdivided. c1850s. Plastered walls; gabled slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles, clustered octagonal chimney shafts with deep cornices and some original tapering octagonal chimney-pots. Domestic Tudor style. PLAN: T-plan with an octagonal porch in the angle between main block and rear wing on the south side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attic 3-window entrance front, gabled end of rear wing projecting to the front to the left. Deep eaves; chamfered frames to windows. Octagonal projecting porch has pyramidal roof with lead rolls, diamond pattern slates and wrought-iron finial. Original plank door with ornamental strap hinges, flanked by tall windows with glazing bars. Ground-floor bay window to left has hipped roof with iron cresting. 3 first-floor windows including a gabled oriel. The right return, facing the road, has a canted bay window with diamond pattern slates and lead rolls to the hipped roof: windows with moulded mullions. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Steps down to basement to left of porch retain original iron railings with fleur de lis finials. Octagonal gate piers with pyramidal caps and low garden wall with ramped coping. An unusually small example of a Tudor style villa in one of the better preserved areas of Torquay.

Listing NGR: SX9251363331

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501987

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)