Description

TORQUAY

SX9364 KENTS ROAD, Ilsham 885-1/15/408 (North side) Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 7 houses. c1870s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roofs, mostly with sprocketed eaves; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices or platbands. PLAN: Terrace with end houses of a slightly different design. Double-depth houses, mostly 2-rooms wide. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Each house in the terrace double-fronted, typically with a 3-window front with deep sprocketed eaves; first-floor platband; dividing pilaster strips, rusticated on the ground floor with sunk panels to the first floor and moulded brackets to the party walls. Pilastered, moulded, round-headed doorway with vermiculated keyblock; 4-panel door with plain fanlight. Outer windows on both floors are tripartite sashes with sill blocks, ground floor with floating cornices on brackets, second floor with moulded architraves and segmental heads. First floor centre window similar but not tripartite. 3 segmental-headed dormers with moulded cornices. All windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars except dormers which are 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. The end terrace houses are T-plan with a porch in the angle between main block and wing. 2-window elevation to Kents Road, broken forward and gabled to the right: ground and first-floor windows tripartite with floating cornices. No.6 is slightly different to the others in the terrace, the left-hand bay gabled to the front and slightly broken forward. INTERIOR: Not inspected by may retain features of interest. A fine example of an unspoiled stuccoed Torquay terrace of modestly-sized houses.

Listing NGR: SX9324464046

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)