Lisburne Crescent (Terrace)
1-9, LISBURNE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206783
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lisburne Crescent (Terrace)
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9, LISBURNE CRESCENT
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206783
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lisburne Crescent (Terrace)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-9, LISBURNE CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 2:
- LISBURNE CRESCENT (TERRACE), 1-9, HIGHER WOODFIELD 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:
- 1-9, LISBURNE CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- LISBURNE CRESCENT (TERRACE), 1-9, HIGHER WOODFIELD 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 92679 63641
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/114 (East side) 20/11/52 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive) Lisburne Crescent (terrace)
GV II
Terrace of 9 houses. 1853 (Ellis). Architect unknown to date. Plastered; roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices, some with old octagonal pots. Italianate style. PLAN: Concave terrace. Each house double-depth, one room wide, with piano nobile. Detached service blocks (separately listed as item 131) to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Regular 3-bay front to each house, front door to the right. Deep projecting eaves cornice above modillion frieze on richly-moulded paired brackets; parapet with balustrade of roundels and ovals interrupted by short piers, some with pineapple finials, at the party walls. Terrace alternates between types A and B. Type A breaks forward with rusticated pilasters to the ground floor; moulded string to first floor. Round-headed doorway to right with a rusticated surround; recessed 4-panel front door with plain fanlight. 2 ground-floor windows with rusticated surrounds, plain panels over lintels, 3 first-floor windows with moulded architraves and floating cornices on consoles, the centre cornice pedimented; sunk panels below sills; pilasters with sunk panels and lozenges of vermiculated rustication. 3 second-floor windows with sill blocks. Windows 12-pane sashes, except first floor, which are 8-pane. Type B, set back, is similar but the ground-floor windows have rusticated surrounds. First-floor windows have no consoles to the floating cornices. Several windows retain fascias for sun blinds. No.9, at the right end, is symmetrical with the doorway in a single-storey entrance block at the left end. This has a pedimented gable, left and right pineapple finials; round-headed doorway with a 4-panel door with a plain fanlight. INTERIOR: Not inspected but features of interest may survive. HISTORY: An important high-status Torquay terrace, built on Palk land and given a family name of Sir Lawrence Palk's second wife (Ellis). (Ellis Arthur C: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.276-277).
Listing NGR: SX9267963641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 276-277
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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