Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 TORRS PARK
853-1/6/133 (North side)
St Martins

GV II

Detached house. Dated 1880 on plaque over entrance. By WM
Robbins of Ilfracombe. Gothic style.
MATERIALS: red brick with dressings of yellow and black brick;
details in stone, red terracotta and wood. Tarred, slated roof
with crested ridge tiles. Red and yellow brick chimney to
right of ridge.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garret. 3-window front. Projecting
entrance porch in centre, the brickwork at either side carried
up to form a pair of large gables. Porch has doorway with
pointed arch, its head flanked by bands of red and black
brick; half glazed double doors with coloured glass in
fanlight. Above the porch a wooden semi-octagonal bay window
with base of enriched terracotta panels and pointed roof.
Outer windows set in tall, pointed arched yellow brick
recesses rising into the gables, which have traceried
bargeboards. At either side of the porch in ground storey a
glazed conservatory surmounted by a balustraded wooden
balcony. In the side walls square wooden bay windows with
half-timbered panels.
INTERIOR partially inspected, with original cornices, enriched
doorframes and original stair.
This is one of the best houses in Torrs Park. It is listed
(without an occupant) in the census return for April 1881. A
house seen to be shown on this site in a block plan of about
1879-80 in Board of Health File.
(Ilfracombe Chronicle, 23.7.1937: Hussell AT: 8; Census Return
Public Record Office on microfilm: West Country Studies Lib.:
1881-; Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning File 5A on
microfilm: North Devon District Council Planning Department).

Listing NGR: SS5109347335

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580832

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)