No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden
NO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 4, LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195230
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 4, LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195230
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 4, LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
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:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 4, LOWER POLSHAM 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 88867 61257
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8861 LOWER POLSHAM ROAD 1947-1/4/47 (North side) 10/01/75 No.4 and attached walls and piers to front garden
GV II
House including garden walls and piers to front garden. c1850. MATERIALS: Stuccoed and blocked out; natural slate roof, gabled at ends; end stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Double-depth with central staircase, 2-rooms-wide. EXTERIOR: Slightly set back and sited above the road. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front. Deep boxed eaves. Pretty late C19/early C20 enclosed vernadah across front with a lean-to glazed roof and dentil frieze below a bracketed cornice. Half-glazed outer door in centre with margin panes and stained glass. 5 bays of verandah to right of door with similar glazing with margin panes and stained glass. To the left of the door one bay of the verandah has been absorbed into the house. The bay alongside is glazed with paired 2-pane sashes. The left-hand bay is open with a segmental head. Inside the verandah central half-glazed late C19/early C20 front door with stained glass. High-transomed French window to right. On the first floor of the front elevation of the house, a round-headed blind recess with a moulded arch and keyblock, flanked by C19 twelve-pane sashes. Probably original gabled attic dormer in centre with a 2-light timber casement, 6 panes per light. Local red breccia rubble garden walls with square section piers with pyramidal caps to front garden. INTERIOR: Late C19 tiling to verandah floor. Interior otherwise not inspected but said to be very intact with original chimney-pieces throughout; stick baluster stair and original joinery.
Listing NGR: SX8886761257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383819
- 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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