Holme House and Greta Cottage
GRETA COTTAGE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206775
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Holme House and Greta Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GRETA COTTAGE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206775
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Holme House and Greta Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRETA COTTAGE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOLME HOUSE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
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:
- GRETA COTTAGE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
- Statutory Address:
- HOLME HOUSE, GREENWAY ROAD, CHELSTON, TORQUAY, TQ2 6JD
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:
- SX9024463844
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/03/2016
SX9163
885-1/17/331
TORQUAY
Chelston
GREENWAY ROAD, (North side)
Holme House and Greta Cottage
(Formerly listed as Ochiltree House)
GV
II
Large villa.1889. Plastered red sandstone walls; natural slate roofs hipped at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with sunk panels and deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Main block rectangular and double-depth on plan with entrance on north west corner into a stair hall, service block at east end.
EXTERIOR: Very intact and richly-detailed. Asymmetrical 3:2-window garden front (the 2 windows to the service block). Deep eaves with eaves band and consoles; moulded sill band; platband; stuccoed quoins to ground floor and paired pilasters on the first floor. Two 2-storey canted bays to left with deep pyramidal slate roofs with sprocketed eaves and wrought-iron crowns. Segmental-headed windows, glazed with original 2-pane sashes with plastered architraves with consoles and faceted keyblocks. Sections of recessed balustrading below first-floor windows. Centre windows with floating cornices on consoles. Service wing has central shallow projecting stack flanked by windows with proud architraves. Entrance tower in north-west corner has stuccoed quoins and conical roof. Round-headed doorway with front door with faceted panels and original door furniture; floating cornice on consoles. Pair of first-floor round-headed windows with pilastered architraves, keyblocks and a section of blind balustrading below the sill.
INTERIOR: Extremely well-preserved, and lavishly fitted-out. Stained glass; straight-flight stair with Jacobean-style balustrade and mahogany handrail; marble chimneypieces; outstanding plaster cornices including pairs of birds and fruit motifs. Service block incorporates a coal lift to raise coal from the cellar to the kitchen.
HISTORY: Said to have been built for a Dr Black at a cost of £1,700 by a builder called Blatchford who built a group of large villas in this area of Chelston. A rare example of a large, late Torquay villa still in single ownership, at time of listing in 1994, and in an almost perfect state of preservation. On a prominent site and visible from many parts of Chelston, an unspoiled suburb of Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9024463844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390618
- 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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