Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 PARK HILL ROAD
885-1/18/208 (East side)
26/11/73 Devonshire Hotel

GV II

Large villa, in use as hotel. c1840s with extensive C20 rear
additions not included in the listing. Plastered; hipped slate
roof; stacks with rendered shafts with corbelled cornices.
Italianate style.
PLAN: Approximately rectangular with projecting central
entrance bay.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-storey entrance bay. Deep eaves with
elaborate moulded eaves brackets; first-floor platband.
Asymmetrical 5-window front. Modern front door recessed
between window bays with pilasters. Doric porch with columns
in antis removed since 1975 list description and replaced with
unsuitable C20 canopy on iron columns. First and second-floor
windows over door are 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing
bars. Ground-floor sashes, one tripartite with plain
architraves with incised Greek key moulding and cornices on
brackets. First-floor window sashes in plainer embrasures one
with a balustraded parapet. Front lateral stack to right of
centre with pedimented shoulders.
INTERIOR: Partial inspection. Stair with good cast-iron
balustrade.

Listing NGR: SX9240163085

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580159

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)