Description

TORQUAY

SX9265 BABBACOMBE ROAD 885-1/12/312 (South West side) 10/01/75 No.125

GV II

House, divided into flats. c1840. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof hipped at ends; stacks with stuccoed shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth main range with rear service wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front. Deep eaves with boarded soffit. Central 4-panel front door with plain overlight below tall round-headed niche on first floor. 12-pane sash to ground-floor right, ground and first-floor windows left blind. First-floor window right a 12-pane sash with an ornate cast-iron balcony with anthemion decoration and Vitruvian scrolls. Left return (garden elevation) with central niches to both floors, 12-pane first-floor sashes with similar cast-iron balconies and probably later high-transomed ground-floor windows. Rear wing has 2 first-floor 12-pane sashes and modern ground floor windows. INTERIOR: Altered for conversion to flats.

Listing NGR: SX9264265346

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569243

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings