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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569243

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)