Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/78 Nos. 1-10 (consecutive) Clifton Grove

GV II

Terrace of 10 houses. c1870s. Plastered; gabled slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth plan houses, one room wide, arranged in pairs, with front doors towards the centre of each pair. EXTERIOR: 3-storey and basement. Enriched stucco detail. Deep eaves; eaves level junction marked by an elaborate corbelled bracket with sill blocks. Each house has a 2-window front: one ground floor, one first floor and 2 attic windows. Projecting porch with square section piers with plinths, capitals and shallow pediment. 4-panel front door with fielded panels and plain overlight; tiled porch floor. Ground-floor window a tripartite sash with a floating cornice on consoles, glazed with 4-pane sashes. First-floor window with sillblocks and a floating cornice on brackets, glazed with a 4-pane sash. 2 gabled attic dormers with moulded architaves, pedimented gables and sill blocks, glazed with a 4-pane sash. Original cast-iron rainwater goods with downpipes dividing around the eaves brackets and discharging into richly-moulded hoppers. Rear elevations preserve their cement render and are also richly-detailed in the same style, with original windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but known to retain stairs with turned balusters and other features of interest are likely to survive. A prominent terrace set high above the Babbacombe Road.

Listing NGR: SX9257663786

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