Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 CROFT ROAD
885-1/14/85 (South West side)
02/05/74 No.28
Howden Court Hotel

GV II

Large detached villa, now in use as hotel. c1865-75; C20
south-west addition. Stuccoed; hipped slate roof; stacks with
stuccoed shafts. Italianate style.
PLAN: Deep L-plan. Principal rooms to south, entrance on east
side; service wing to north, north-east belvedere in angle
between main block and wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets
with dentil course below. Chimney shafts with faceted panels
with modillion cornices. Most windows glazed with 4-pane
sashes with horizontal glazing bars. 2-bay entrance elevation
plus 1-bay to the belvedere set back to the right.
Projecting centre bay under pedimented gable with a wreath.
Doric porch with paired columns, entablature and modillion
cornice; balustraded parapet to first floor balcony above.
Round-headed first-floor window with moulded architrave and
keyblock, flanked by paired Composite columns. Left-hand bay
has outer pilaster, rusticated to the ground floor with a
cornice with modillion brackets at first floor level and
paired composite pilasters above. Bay has shallow projecting
stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and panelled
decoration to the first floor.
To the right a 3-storey belevedere in the same style, the
second stage corbelled out on brackets, with triplet of
round-headed second-floor windows having moulded architraves
with keyblocks and balustraded balconies.
Other elevations of the villa in the same style.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to contain original
features.
Very similar in layout and style to the Allerdale Hotel (qv),
the neighbouring villa to the west. These are 2 of the grander
late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay.

Listing NGR: SX9124864053

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Howden Court Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26581012

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