12-30, CASTLE ROAD
12-30, CASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206745
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 12-30, CASTLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 12-30, CASTLE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206745
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 12-30, CASTLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-30, CASTLE 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:
- 12-30, CASTLE 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 91547 64375
Details
TORQUAY
SX9164 CASTLE ROAD 885-1/14/65 (North East side) 10/01/75 Nos.12-30 (Even)
GV II
Terrace of 10 houses. Probably 1870s (not shown on 1866 OS map). Originally cement-rendered and blocked out, now mostly colourwashed); slate roofs; stacks have rendered shafts with dentil cornices. Italianate style. PLAN: Double-depth on plan: end houses entered on returns; others single-fronted, Nos 14-20 entered to the right; Nos 22-28 entered to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, some with basements. Deep eaves with moulded eaves and verges brackets. Rich stucco detail includes platbands, eaves and verges band (latter fretted to end terrace houses), moulded sill band and round-headed ground-floor windows with pilastered, moulded architraves with keyblocks. Typical front to left of centre is 2:1-windows, the right-hand bay broken forward under a shallow hipped roof with flanking stacks containing a round-headed doorway with a 6-panel front door with plain overlight. Above the door a dentil cornice and section of blind balustrading. Tall, round-headed window above with pilastered moulded architrave with keyblock. Ground floor windows to left similar and round-headed, first-floor windows square-headed with ovolo-moulded frames. Original glazing 2 over 2-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars, some altered. Same arrangement mirrored to right of centre. End houses slightly broken forward and gabled to the front with 2 round-headed windows on the ground floor and a similar first-floor pair. No.12 has steps up to a front door on the left return and has a gabled projection with 2 round-headed windows. No.20 has a C20 addition to the return. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to retain features of interest. A good, well-preserved, stuccoed terrace using many details borrowed from contemporary Torquay villas. (1st edition 1866 OS: CXV1.10).
Listing NGR: SX9156264403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390535
- 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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