Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 STITCHILL ROAD 885-1/18/237 (West side) 12/09/74 Kathleen Court

GV II

Villa, in use as hotel. c1830s, alterations of c1910. Plastered; slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth, south-facing main block with entrance on east return, service wing to north. Edwardian alterations include Ionic colonnade on south side, billiard room to south-west and east porch. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-bay east front to main block under a pedimented gable. Narrow outer bays with parapets set back and blind centre bay with 3-window front. Early C20 porch with Ionic columns in antis; 6-panel front door with stained glass overlight and glazed side panels. Single-storey flat-roofed bay to right of the porch with a tripartite sash. Tripartite centre window to first floor, partly reglazed with an 8 over one-pane sash in the centre flanked by 2 over one-pane sashes. Outer first-floor windows and ground-floor window left glazed with 8 over one-pane sashes. 3-bay 1:3:1-window south front with a projecting cornice and parapet; the centre bay canted. 16-pane early C19 sashes to first floor. Ground-floor sashes to centre bay converted to French windows when 3-bay bowed Ionic colonnade with balustraded parapet was added. Colonnade flanked by infilled balustraded bays to left and right, glazed with tripartite sashes with small panes in the upper lights. Early C20 single-storey billiard room to left has a projecting rectangular pilastered bay on the south front with a hipped slate roof with cast-iron cresting. Bay glazed with tripartite sash. INTERIOR: Early and late C20 alterations. Ground-floor room to left of entrance preserves 1830s Greek Revival plaster cornice. Mahogany Edwardian stair. One of the earlier Torquay villas.

Listing NGR: SX9229863925

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569186

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)