Description

TORQUAY

SX9163 MADREPORE ROAD
885-1/17/79 (East side)
10/01/75 Nos. 1-7 (consecutive) Clifton
Terrace

GV II

Terrace of 7 villas. Begun 1853 (Ellis, p.317). Stuccoed and
blocked out; slate roofs, hipped at ends; stacks with rendered
shafts. Classical style.
PLAN: West-facing row. Each villa double-depth on plan, each
with a doorway to the left, except No.7, which is entered on
the left (north) return.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Each villa 3 bays. Terrace arranged with
3 similar houses in the centre, flanked by a matching pair,
end houses differ. Plinth; sunk panels below ground floor
windows; first and second floor platbands; deep boxed eaves.
Nos 3 to 5 are divided by pilaster strips, Nos.2 and 6 are
gabled to the front with deep verges on moulded brackets. All
ground-floor openings segmental-headed. Front doors to the
left with overlights, windows originlly 12-pane sashes, mostly
reglazed as 2-pane sashes. One first-floor window to each
villa, all formerly with cast-iron balconies on brackets.
Nos 1, 2 and 3 have segmental-headed cornices on plain
brackets. Some windows glazed with original tripartite sashes;
12-pane in the centre, 4-pane in the outer lights.
Second-floor windows originally glazed with 12-pane sashes
(Nos 7 and 6), mostly glazed as 2-pane timber sashes, plastic
replacements in No.7. Nos 2 and 6 have round-headed
second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes.
No.1 has a 2-storey pedimented entrance block on the left
return. The door in a segmental-headed recess, the first-floor
window round-headed, glazed with a 12-pane sash in a
round-headed recess. Semicircular second-floor window in
recess has Y tracery.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
(Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition:
1930-: P.317).

Listing NGR: SX9179663932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569242

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