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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569249

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