Sunpark
SUNPARK, 1, PARK AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195109
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Sunpark
- Statutory Address:
- SUNPARK, 1, PARK AVENUE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195109
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Sunpark
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNPARK, 1, PARK AVENUE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SUNPARK, 1, PARK AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91781 55271
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9155 PARK AVENUE, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/268 (South West side) No.1 Sunpark
GV II
House. 1930s. Modern Movement house to the designs of Melville H. Aubin. Mainly brick, painted white with blue (replacing original green) painting of windows and rainwater goods with flat sun roof with railings; stack with pair of tall rendered shafts linked by horizontal bar. Plan: entrance into hall, stair in turret to left. Living room and dining room to right in lower-roofed block, bowed to front and rear, kitchen to left, behind stair, with shallow projecting stack. Stair turret rises to give access to small room on top of sun roof. Exterior: very complete. 2 storeys with taller stair turret and sun room on roof. Asymmetrical 3-window front of 3 staggered blocks. Iron windows with glazing bars; ribbon wrap-around windows to the bowed front to the right. Tall stair turret to left with 3 windows. Lower-roofed porch block in centre, slightly set back, with projecting porch canopy supported on post at right and forming balcony to first-floor room above. Original oak front door. Bow-ended block to right, broken forward. The right return has paired slit windows to each floor. Sun room on roof has large windows on 3 sides. INTERIOR: very unaltered except for light switches and most light fittings and wall decoration. Plywood joinery with original door furniture; original tiled chimneypieces; parquet floors. Original kitchen including sink, fitted shelving and cupboards; original bathroom with green wall tiles and patterned floor. This is an almost perfectly preserved example of a Modern Movement house.
Listing NGR: SX9178155271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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