Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 FURZEHILL ROAD 885-1/14/99 (South side) 10/01/75 Furzewell House (Formerly Listed as: FURZEHILL ROAD Furzewell House and Los Caracas)

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Principal block of large villa. Late 1840s/early 1850s. Plastered; hipped slate roof; stacks with plastered shafts with panels and cornices. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular plan, entrance on the east side. The service block, now in separate ownership, adjoins to the north and is not listed. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front with paired eaves and verges brackets. Centre bay broken forward and gabled with a projecting Greek Doric porch with distyle cloumns in antis. Narrow round-headed doorway with a panelled front door with fanlight. 12-pane first-floor centre sash in a segmental-headed recess. Blind recesses to left-hand bay; 12-pane sash to ground floor right, blind recess above. The left (north) return has a glazed verandah on posts; 2 ground-floor French windows and 2 first-floor tripartite small-pane sashes. Canted west end to the return has small-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9139664715

External Links

• Wikidata Q26503893

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)