Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD
885-1/18/199 (South side)
10/01/75 Manor Barn Cottage (No.1) Clifton
Cottages (No.2) and stone walls to
east

GV II

Barn, extended and altered as carriage house at one end, now
converted into cottages. Difficult to date from surviving
details but probably late C15 or C16 in origin; late C19
carriage house conversion, C20 conversion into cottages.
Painted stone rubble barn, rear wall rendered; slate gabled
roof; carriage house stone rubble with brick dressings; brick
stacks.
PLAN: A large rectangular barn with the remnants of a midstrey
porch and no evidence of opposed rear entrance. The
conversions have taken place within the old walls but with an
extension at the left (south) end.
EXTERIOR: Very altered. 2 storeys. 4:3 window front. The north
end of the barn preserves a massive central buttress with a
set-off; rear (west) elevation has 5 buttresses with set-offs.
The front of Manor Barn Cottage retains the remnants of the
midstrey: stone cheeks with a lean-to slate roof. Numerous
modern openings, including roof lights, in the barn roof. Nos
1 and 2 Clifton Cottages preserve the character of the
carriage house including the doorway, and has a higher-roofed
addition at the left end.
INTERIOR: Manor Barn Cottage inspected. No evidence of an
early roof seen on survey.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall stone rubble walls, probably coeval
with the barn, around the east side gardens.
HISTORY: Although very altered this represents a fragment of
pre-C19 Torquay. Torwood Grange was owned by Torre Abbey until
1540 when it was granted to John Ridgeway and Sir Thomas
Denys. The manor house was pulled down in 1843 by the Harvey
brothers when the site was developed with villas. Ellis
includes a reproduction of the Reverend John Swete's c1780
sketch of the barn and its relationship to the manor house,
p.263.
(Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay: 1930-:
PP.254-266).

Listing NGR: SX9254263750

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512721

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