32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY ROAD
32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195235
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05498/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195235
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32 AND 34, OLD TORQUAY 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:
- 32 AND 34, OLD 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 89210 61846
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8961 OLD TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/65 (North side) 13/03/51 Nos.32 AND 34
GV II
House, divided into 2 cottages. Probably mid C17 or earlier in origin. Rendered mass wall; thatched roof, hipped at ends; large projecting front lateral stack with roughcast shaft and paired pots with toothed cresting. Single-depth to main range, 2-rooms-wide, now with left and right doorways facing stairs. Later rear outshuts (not thatched). 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3:1-window front, the lateral stack shouldered with drip ledges. Recessed C20 doors to left and right; ground-floor C20 small-pane bow windows towards the centre. 4 first-floor small-pane timber 3-light casements. The right return of No.34 has a first-floor window with probably early C19 two-light casement with glazing bars. INTERIOR: No.32 modernised. No.34 said to retain early exposed carpentry but access to interior unobtainable on survey. One of a group of pre-C19 vernacular houses in Preston.
Listing NGR: SX8921061846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383838
- 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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