Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 CROFT ROAD 885-1/14/84 (South West side) 10/01/75 No.21 Allerdale Hotel

GV II

Large detached villa, now in use as a hotel. c1875-76. C20 rear (north) addition. Solid wall construction, stuccoed with some traces of blocking out; hipped slate roof; stacks with dismantled shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep, approximately rectangular plan, principal rooms to the front (south), service wing to the rear. Entrance on east side into large hall, stairs rise off to north. 3-storey belvedere to north-west. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Regular but asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front, the centre bay broken forward under a pedimented gable with a wreath. Outer angle rusticated pilasters have first-floor Composite pilasters with cornices on modillion brackets, entablature above with faceted panels and clustered composite pilasters above. Shallow projecting Doric porch in centre with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet above C19 half-glazed front door with etched glass and deep overlight. Round-headed window above with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired composite pilasters. Left-hand bay has projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and an incised panel to the first floor. Right-hand bay has one ground and one first floor window with proud architraves. All windows glazed with probably original 4-pane plate glass windows. Other elevations in the same style. Belvedere has a hipped roof with deep eaves, each corner with a panelled chimney shaft with bracketed cornice. 2nd-storey tower elevations have round-headed triplet windows with moulded architraves and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Original features include open-well stair with turned balusters; original deep relief plaster cornices and joinery. Very similar in layout and style to the Howden Court Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the east. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay.

Listing NGR: SX9112364078

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