Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 MEADFOOT ROAD 885-1/18/164 (South side) 10/01/75 Merlewood

GV II

House, partly in use as restaurant. c1840s. Stuccoed and blocked out; gabled slate roof; stacks with set-offs, moulded strings and octagonal shafts with cornices. Tudor Domestic style. PLAN: Overall L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Moulded cornice below coped parapet. Original windows recessed with chamfered architraves, glazed with small-pane sashes. Asymmetrical 2-window garden front with a shallow gabled projection to the right with an original canted bay on the ground floor, with moulded frames, glazed with 6 over 1-pane sashes and a similar first-floor 2-light window with a moulded frame, glazed with 4 over 6-pane sashes. First-floor left is a similar 3-light window. Edwardian ground-floor bay glazed with high-transomed plate glass windows. The left return is one window with a shallow projecting stack to the right. Unsuitable C20 flat-roofed single-storey addition. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9232263314

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