9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court
9, Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206732
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court
- Statutory Address:
- 9, Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206732
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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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.
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:
- 9, Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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 91895 63172
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 October 2022 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
SX9163
885-1/17/36
TORQUAY
BEACON HILL (North East side)
No.9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court
(Formerly Listed as: BEACON TERRACE Beach Spa Hotel and Oyster Shell Cafe)
20/11/52
GV
II
Pair of terraced houses, undergoing conversion to flats at time of survey. c1830s by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate mansard roof; stacks with rendered shafts and platbands.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and attic 3:3-window front with front doors to left. Platbands below second-floor sill. Deep projecting eaves cornice with blocking course. Description only approximate as some detail concealed or not in situ during conversion. Right-hand house has square-headed doorway, two ground floor windows probably twelve-pane sashes. six over nine-pane first floor sashes (balconies in situ), twelve-pane second floor sashes; C20 small pane sashes in mansard roof. The left-hand house is similar but has a good corner bay. Round-headed doorway of the Southernhay, Exeter type with a reeded moulding, vermiculated rustication and a key block with a carved or cast head. Greek key moulding across doorway and below fanlight which is a particularly pretty design in lead with a central roundel with star motifs. C20 two-leaf small-pane door. First floor six over nine-pane sash with a C20 balcony; twelve-pane second floor sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest
HISTORY: Part of the same terrace as Nos 2-8 Beacon Hill, (qv). Ellis reproduces an 1839 drawing of the terrace before alterations.
Listing NGR: SX9189563172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 337
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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