Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD
885-1/18/146 (North West side)
The Lawn

GV II

Villa converted into holiday flats. c1840s. Stuccoed and
blocked out; slate roof; stacks with tall grouped octagonal
shafts with projecting cornice. Domestic Tudor style.
PLAN: Irregular but approximately rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Plain parapet with chamfered
coping above string course. Windows have chamfered architraves
and dripmoulds. Irregular 1:1:1-window front. Projecting
2-storey porch on front with a moulded cornice to the parapet.
Attractive ogival-arched doorway with a moulded dripmould.
Recessed 6-panel front door with Perpendicular-style tracery
to the ogival fanlight. Blind first-floor window above. To
left of the porch a projecting stack with chamfered strings, a
moulded cornice and multiple shafts; one first-floor window to
left. Modern single-storey additions built against stack and
left and right ends of front. The other elevations continue in
the same style.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Particular importance for the picturesque contribution it
makes to Torwood Gardens.

Listing NGR: SX9254763572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505016

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version