COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD

COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD, TORQUAY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195208
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD
Statutory Address:: COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD, TORQUAY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195208
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD
Statutory Address 1:: COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD, TORQUAY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COURTYARD ARCH AND SCREEN WALLS AT WEST END OF OLDWAY MANSION COURTYARD, TORQUAY ROAD

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 88750 61568

Details

PAIGNTON

SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/109 (West side) 13/03/51 Courtyard arch and screen walls at west end of Oldway Mansion courtyard (Formerly Listed as: TORQUAY ROAD Courtyard Arch to Oldway)

GV II

Triumphal arch with screen walls at the W end of the courtyard to Oldway Mansion (qv). 1904-1907, contemporary with the remodelling of the house for Paris Singer. Stuccoed, possibly over concrete. Massive round-headed, pilastered, moulded archway with a deep projecting cornice and triglyph frieze with patterae. A carved or moulded lion's mask with lionskin swags droops down over the archway. Arch flanked by pilasters with chanelled rustication. Tall screen walls with balustraded parapets are decorated with plain rectangular panels on the courtyard side with additional oculi with plain, proud frames on the W side. A spectacular entrance to a theatrical house. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).

Listing NGR: SX8875061568

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Legacy System number:: 383871
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 839-840

Legal

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