Description

TORQUAY

SX96NW BRIM HILL, Maidencombe
885-1/2/413 Brimhill
10/01/75

II

Villa. c1830s. Plastered; hipped slate roof; rendered stacks.
EXTERIOR: Only one elevation seen on survey. 2-window entrance
front with first-floor sill band and eaves band. Projecting
porch with moulded string below deep projecting cornice with
ball finials. Moulded round-headed doorway; inner doorway also
round-headed with a fanlight with glazing bars and a
half-glazed door. Bay to left of door blind with a shallow
projecting stack. 2 first and one-ground floor windows,
12-pane sashes with moulded architraves.
Previous List description (1975) refers to a symmetrical
3-window garden front with full-length sashes on the ground
floor, glazing bars intact and a centre first-floor French
window giving onto a balcony over the ground-floor verandah.
Verandah described as "good geometric iron trellis pattern and
scroll pattern over first floor". Small, gabled recessed
2-window service wing to SW also mentioned.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to retain features of
interest.
Very complete externally and appears to be a rare example of
an undivided Torquay villa.

Listing NGR: SX9236468500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503235

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets