Description

TORQUAY

SX9163 BEACON HILL 885-1/17/33 (North East side) 10/01/75 Royal Torbay Yacht Club (Formerly Listed as: BEACON TERRACE Royal Torbay Yacht Club)

GV II

Club house, probably originally house. c1840s; C20 alterations. Plastered; hipped slate roof with lead rolls; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Main block with central entrance into a passage, stair rises to rear. Probably secondary block, slightly set back, to the right (uphill). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The left-hand block originally had a symmetrical 3-bay front. Moulded cornice below parapet. Centre bay broken forward with paired giant Doric pilasters to left and right supporting an entablature. Central doorway with pediment on consoles. Recessed 2-leaf 6-panel studded door with overlight. First-floor centre tripartite sash with C20 glazing. Secondary door to left with cornice. The left-hand bay has ground and first floor tripartite sashes: the ground floor with elaborate moulded brackets supporting a balustrded balcony to the first-floor window, which has richly-moulded consoles supporting a cornice. The right-hand bay has been altered and extended. Plain tripartite ground-floor sash flanked by pilasters, doorway alongside with paired pilasters. Large first-floor canted oriel on brackets with consoles and a cornice, glazed with C20 plate glass high transomed windows: C20 window to right. The right-hand block is slightly set back and partly concealed by a C20 single-storey addition. Projecting cornice and parapet; 2 shallow projecting stacks, with dentil-moulded shafts, projecting through the roof. 2 tall round-headed ground floor windows visible with pilasters, moulded arches and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Entrance passage has original cornice; stair with turned balusters. HISTORY: Ellis includes an illustration of the building when the facade of the left-hand block was complete, after the building was opened in 1893 as the Torquay or Torbay Club. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.355).

Listing NGR: SX9193263155

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569249

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