Description

SX 9164 TORQUAY WARBERRY ROAD WEST
(East side)
885-1/14/487
Nos.36 and 38
10.01.1975

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. Circa 1862-3. Stuccoed walls with rusticated quoins and string courses; low hipped slate roof and rendered end stacks. Double-depth plan, and with service wings at rear. 2 storeys; 2-window front has 2 slightly projecting full-height bays with low and plain bargeboarded gables and tripartite ground-floor windows horizontal glazing bars to sashes. No.36 has paired round-headed first-floor window divided by pilaster and with archivolts. No.38 has later C19 or early C20 canted wood bay window. Wood trellis verandah with trellis balustrade, returned to 2-window side walls with 2/2-pane sashes and glazed C19 entrance porches.
INTERIOR of No.36 is largely intact and retains much of its original joinery, including panelled doors, staircase with turned balusters and newel and mahogany handrail, the principal rooms have moulded ceiling cornices, the drawing room with a frieze and a marble chimneypiece. The entrance vestibule has a stained glass door and overlight. Interior of No.38 not inspected.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9177464235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513865

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper