The Regency
The Regency, 41 Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8AZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203011
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Regency
- Statutory Address:
- The Regency, 41 Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8AZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203011
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Regency
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Regency, 41 Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8AZ
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:
- The Regency, 41 Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8AZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5117947354
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SS5147
853-1/6/132
ILFRACOMBE
TORRS PARK (South side)
No 41 (The Regency)
(Formerly listed as Grey Gables)
GV
II
Large detached house, a residential home at time of listing. Probably 1880 by WC Oliver of Barnstaple; late C20 addition on left side. Gothic style.
MATERIALS: cream brick with dressings of red brick and stone. Slated roof with red crested ridge tiles and terracotta finials. Red brick chimney on south side.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with semi basement and garret. Asymmetrical front with three-storeyed gabled projection off-centre to left having mock timber-framing in the gable. To right of this the entrance porch with carved pointed arch springing from thick columns with carved capitals; Gothic open work balustrade on top. Ground storey windows have cinquefoil transom lights with coloured glass. Second storey window of projection has three lights with pointed arches springing from columns between the lights; sashes and transom lights filled with coloured glass.
Rear elevation (visible from churchyard and Langleigh Road) has off-centre canted bay window with wooden top storey having a timber-framed gable and bargeboards. Side elevations have pairs of similar gables.
INTERIOR not inspected.
An elevation very similar to this for a detached house in Torrs Park was submitted to the Board by WC Oliver in April 1880. It was referred back but may have been revised and approved soon after. Southcliffe and Wilderbrook Nursing Home Annexe (not included) of 1882 are less vigorous but in the same style.
(North Devon District Council Planning Dept: (microfilm): Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning Register: Book 1: FILE 4).
Listing NGR: SS5117947354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390273
- 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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