BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, FISHER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195102
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, FISHER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195102
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, FISHER STREET
Statutory Address 2:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, MABEL PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, FISHER STREET
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, MABEL PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 88622 60300

Details

PAIGNTON

SX8860 FISHER STREET 1947-1/5/36 (South West side) Boundary walls, gate piers and gates to Tower House School

GV II

Boundary walls, gates and gate piers. 1890, contemporary with Tower House. Local grey limestone rubble walls, partly rendered, with Flemish bond yellow brick above and cast-concrete coping. The main entrance gates in Mabel Place have rusticated rendered square section gate piers with large oversailing cast-concrete caps crowned with truncated pinnacles. 'Tower House' is written in mosaic under the cornices of the piers. Pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates. The entrance from Fisher Street has one pedestrian gate and one vehicular gate. Rusticated square section piers with yellow brick dressings and sandstone caps. Gates have alternating square section and twisted verticals below the middle rail and diagonal bracing above with central cast-iron floral motif and wrought-iron arabesques. Included for group value with Tower House School (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8862260300

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Legacy System number:: 383798
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.