Torquay Cemetery Lodge Including Flanking Walls, Gates and Gate Piers

TORQUAY CEMETERY LODGE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS, GATES AND GATE PIERS, BARTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206730
Date first listed:
03-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Torquay Cemetery Lodge Including Flanking Walls, Gates and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
TORQUAY CEMETERY LODGE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS, GATES AND GATE PIERS, BARTON ROAD

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Date:
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206730
Date first listed:
03-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Torquay Cemetery Lodge Including Flanking Walls, Gates and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
TORQUAY CEMETERY LODGE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS, GATES AND GATE PIERS, BARTON ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TORQUAY CEMETERY LODGE INCLUDING FLANKING WALLS, GATES AND GATE PIERS, BARTON 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 90603 65949

Details

TORQUAY

SX9065 BARTON ROAD 885-1/10/28 (West side) Torquay Cemetery Lodge including flanking walls, gates and gate piers

GV II

Cemetery Lodge including gates and curtain walls to carriage turn. c1852, the date the cemetery was established. Snecked local grey limestone rubble; Bathstone dressings; natural slate roof; stacks with octagonal stone shafts, one reduced in height. Cast-iron gates and railings. Tudor style. PLAN: Lodge approximately rectangular: rear left service wing, rear right outhouse. Lodge is the centrepiece of an entrance ensemble with gateways to either side and curving curtain walls which incorporate the entrances to 2 small buildings, perhaps storehouses. EXTERIOR: Single-storey lodge. Picturesque asymmetrical front elevation of 3 irregular bays projecting forward from the main block. Porch in centre with a coped gable, moulded 3-centred doorway and recessed plank door. To its right the lodge is gabled to the front with a coped gable and 2-light stone windows of paired lancets below a square-headed dripstone: windows glazed with small-pane sashes. To left of porch and slightly set back a 3-sided turret with moulded string below the parapet and a single lancet in a stone frame. The returns of the main block have 2-light windows, matching those on the front. The rear elevation appears to incorporate some fragments of an earlier building: a section of rubble wall between the rear wings may be pre-C19 and the main block incorporates a probably C19 Beerstone window. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Flanking the front of the lodge cast-iron railings on a low chamfered plinth have fleur-de-lis finials above the dog rail and cross finials above the top rail; matching gates. Octagonal gate piers to left and right gates have pyramidal stone caps and moulded cornices. The flanking walls have gabled piers at either end and incorporate 3-centred arched doorways with plank doors and elaborate strap hinges. HISTORY: 17 acre site established by the Torquay Extra-Mural Cemetery Company. (Brooks). (Brooks C (ed.): Mortal Remains: Exeter: 1989-: P.176).

Listing NGR: SX9060365949

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Legacy System number:
390493
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Sources

Books and journals
Brooks, C, Mortal Remains, (1989), 176

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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