Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 TOR CHURCH ROAD 885-1/14/473 (North side) 10/01/75 No.9

II

Villa, divided into flats. c1850s with later C19 addition at right end. Rendered; gabled slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Sited high above Tor Church Road. Originally 2 rooms wide, 2 rooms deep, with rear service rooms and yard for stabling etc Replanned for subdivision into flats but preserving stair. Secondary entrance block attached to right end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Original block symmetrical and 3-bays; 2-window addition to right. Gabled to the front with moulded verges on brackets; left and right pilasters with sunk panels and moulded brackets rising above the verges; platband at first floor level. Pilasters with round-headed arch to centre bay on first and second storeys. 3-bay C20 timber verandah across front on timber posts with first-floor balcony with simple timber palings. 3 ground-floor 6 over 9-pane sashes. First floor outer windows 12-pane sashes with cornices on consoles. French window in centre with similar treatment. Second floor has blind semicircular recesses (perhaps originally glazed) with moulded architraves, centre window round-headed with margin panes. 2 new small windows inserted on second floor. 2-storey block to right has plain parapet, ground floor has 2-leaf C20 half-glazed front door with moulded hoodmould; 2 first floor 2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: c1880s tiling to entrance block floor. Stick baluster stair. Doors replaced, some chimneypieces survive.

Listing NGR: SX9103864273

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