Conservative Club
CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 8 AND 8A, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197589
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 8 AND 8A, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05408/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197589
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Conservative Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 8 AND 8A, VICTORIA ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, CHARLES STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, IVY LANE
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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:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 8 AND 8A, VICTORIA ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, CHARLES STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATIVE CLUB, IVY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87637 51369
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/267 (North side) 23/10/72 Nos.8 AND 8A Conservative Club (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (North side) No.8 Constitutional Club)
GV II
Large building, probably made by joining 2 or 3 houses, now Conservative Club and offices. c1830, some C20 alterations. Plastered stone rubble, some painted stone rubble; end and rear stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and pots; hipped slate roof. PLAN: The main block of the building is a double-depth square corner house, 2 rooms wide. Third front room to left (west) set back a little. End stack. No.8A is a block facing onto Ivy Lane behind the third room and it projects slightly further to left. Another rear block behind the right end, onto Charles Street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Main block has a symmetrical 3-window front, lightly blocked out as ashlar and flanked by plain end pilasters. Central round-headed doorway has flat stucco surround with moulded cornice. Recessed unusual round-headed 6-panel door with good original cast-iron knocker. 16-pane sash windows with Tudor-style stucco hoodmoulds, unusual label stops as lions' heads with swags. Moulded eaves cornice and parapet carried round to left over recessed 2-window section, all 16-pane sashes. The rear block to left has a 2-window front to Ivy Lane of large horned 16-pane sashes, wall is painted stone rubble at ground-floor level. Right end, to Charles Street overlooking Market Square, has a service door to rear, a couple of ground-floor 12-pane sash windows and, to rear, 2 horned 4-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected. This house is one of a good group of houses and shops dating from the second quarter of the C19 alongside New Road (now Victoria Road) which was built in 1825 along the edge of the infilled mill pond to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages in and out of the town.
Listing NGR: SX8763751369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387381
- 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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