4-16, TORBAY ROAD, 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195244
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 4-16, TORBAY ROAD, 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195244
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 4-16, TORBAY ROAD, 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4-16, TORBAY 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:
- 1-5, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 4-16, TORBAY 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 89026 60640
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8960 TORBAY ROAD 1947-1/6/96 (South side) Nos.4-16 (Even)
GV II
Includes: Nos.1-5 QUEENS PARK ROAD. Row of 7 shops with accommodation over and to the rear. c1890-1900. MATERIALS: Flemish bond red brick with Ham Hill dressings, pink polished granite columns; mansard roof covered with terracotta pantiles; stacks with brick shafts with Ham Hill cornices. PLAN: On the ground floor facing Torbay Road 10 units, now 7 shops, those to the right double fronted. The accommodation above is reached from the rear in Queens Park Road with service yards on the ground floor and steps up to first floor entrances. EXTERIOR: Free Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic 10 bays, divided into pairs. Richly-detailed. Deep eaves on moulded terracotta brackets; decorated terracotta eaves band; clasping left and right pilasters; cornice at first floor level. The ground floor bays are divided by paired composite granite columns. 4 left-hand shops have late C20 plate glass shopfronts. The double-fronted shop in the centre has an earlier shopfront with an overlight glazed as a triple fanlight with spoke glazing bars - this may be the original arrangement - and its neighbour to the right has diagonal glazing bars above the overlight. Secondary deep glazed canopy over shopfronts carried on cast-iron columns. 2-tier canted bay windows above have dentil friezes below the cornices, the upper tier with a shaped parapet. First-floor bay windows glazed with fixed-pane outer lights with high transoms with Art Nouveau stained glass intact throughout above the transom. Centre lights sashes with a segmental bottom rail to the upper light. Upper lights mostly glazed with 15 panes but 3rd and 4th bays from the left with Art Nouveau glass. Between the canted bays, cast-iron balustrades and bullseye windows with brick voussoirs and moulded stone frames. 2nd-floor bay windows glazed with 15 over one-pane sashes with terracotta panels between them. Tall gabled attic dormers with Baroque brackets and left and right pilasters with finials. Round-headed windows with keyblocks, glazed with 2-pane sashes. The rear elevation is equally elaborate, the service yards bounded by stone-coped stepped brick walls with balustraded parapets. 5 projecting wings with 2-tier cast-iron balconies on columns with decorated spandrels, original windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to retain features of interest. Lavishly decorated and well-preserved row of shops. The rear elevations, overlooking the bowling green, are also very attractive and intact. HISTORY: A photograph reproduced in Tully's book shows the shops without the canopy. (Tully P: Peter Tully's Pictures of Paignton: 1988-: 38).
Listing NGR: SX8902660640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383864
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tully, P, Peter Tullys Pictures of Paignton, (1988), 38
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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