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Latitude: 50.4647 / 50°27'52"N
Longitude: -3.5419 / 3°32'30"W
OS Eastings: 290660
OS Northings: 63896
OS Grid: SX906638
Mapcode National: GBR QV.X1ML
Mapcode Global: FRA 37GT.PY7
Plus Code: 9C2RFF75+V6
Entry Name: The Lodge, Torre Abbey, and Attached Garden Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 9 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207725
English Heritage Legacy ID: 390472
ID on this website: 101207725
Location: Chelston, 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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TORQUAY
SX9063 AVENUE ROAD
885-1/17/94 (East side)
09/02/88 The Lodge, Torre Abbey, and attached
garden walls and railings
GV II
Small detached house. c1900. Flemish bond brick with some tile
hanging; tiled roof, half-hipped at ends; axial brick stack
with clustered shaft with corbelled cornices. South-eastern
Vernacular Revival style.
PLAN: Approximately rectangular with entrances on the west and
north side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, roof swept down as catslide over north
end; porch in outshut with catslide on west side. One window
to west side; glazed porch to left with door on right return.
Segmental-headed ground-floor window to right with small panes
and thick glazing bars. Right return facing Abbey gates has a
shallow canted bay to the ground floor, similarly glazed.
First floor is tile hung and jettied out between brick cheeks
with moulded stone corbels; 4-light first-floor end window
(similar glazing) on moulded timber corbels. North end has
half-hipped dormer in the outshut. Grey local limestone rubble
walls enclose the garden, towards the Abbey gateway these
change to low walls with ashlar coping and c1900 railings with
a cast-iron garden gate.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
HISTORY: One of a group of buildings near the entrance to
Torre Abbey, The King's Drive (qv), and built as part of the
estate of the Cary family, long-time owners of the Abbey.
Formerly the gate-keeper's house.
Listing NGR: SX9066063896
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