Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 TOR CHURCH ROAD
885-1/14/264 (North side)
10/01/75 Nos.3 AND 5

GV II

Pair of villas. c1840-1850. Plastered; slate roof, gabled at
ends; stacks with rendered shaft with platbands.
PLAN: Retangular on plan, set back from the road behind a
garden. Double depth, one room wide, entrances on outer
returns.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2:2 window front. Deep boxed
eaves; platband at first-floor level. 4 ground-floor
high-transomed French windows, left-hand (No.5) with margin
panes are probably original. 4 first-floor hornless 12-pane
sashes; 2 segmental-headed attic dormers, the left-hand one
glazed with 2-light casement, 6 panes per light, the
right-hand one reglazed as 2-pane casement. Verandah across
front on modern timber pots with a lapped glass roof, No.5
retains timber trellis panel below verandah eaves. Doorways on
3-bay outer returns, No.5 with C20 glazed porch block.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may include features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9108564284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513481

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)