St Anne's

ST ANNE'S, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206787
Date first listed:
03-May-1994
List Entry Name:
St Anne's
Statutory Address:
ST ANNE'S, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206787
Date first listed:
03-May-1994
List Entry Name:
St Anne's
Statutory Address 1:
ST ANNE'S, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST ANNE'S, 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 92476 63322

Details

TORQUAY

SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/121 (West side) St Anne's

GV II

Large villa. Late 1830s/early 1840s. Cement-rendered; gabled slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Large double-depth rectangular main range with entrance on east side and service wing on north. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves, platband, moulded sill band. Almost symmetrical 3-bay entrance front plus 2-window service wing to right. 2 gables to the front. Central Roman Doric porch with paired columns and deep entablature. 6-panel front door with panelled reveals, flanking glazed panels with an overlight. 12-pane sash windows, one reglazed, with blind recesses to the left-hand bay. 3-bay left return with high transomed French windows on the ground floor and 6 over 9-pane first-floor sashes with later balconies with cast-iron panels. West (garden) elevation also preserves early C19 sash windows: early C20 flat-roofed single-storey cement-rendered addition glazed with 2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. An early Torquay villa in an unspoiled area where most of the villas preserve their original garden plots.

Listing NGR: SX9247663322

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
390648
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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