St Anthony Including Garden Wall and Gate Piers
ST ANTHONY INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206788
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Anthony Including Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANTHONY INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206788
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Anthony Including Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANTHONY INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 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:
- ST ANTHONY INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, 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 92513 63331
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/123 (West side) St Anthony including garden wall and gate piers
GV II
Shown on 1866 OS Map as Elm Cottage. House, subdivided. c1850s. Plastered walls; gabled slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles, clustered octagonal chimney shafts with deep cornices and some original tapering octagonal chimney-pots. Domestic Tudor style. PLAN: T-plan with an octagonal porch in the angle between main block and rear wing on the south side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attic 3-window entrance front, gabled end of rear wing projecting to the front to the left. Deep eaves; chamfered frames to windows. Octagonal projecting porch has pyramidal roof with lead rolls, diamond pattern slates and wrought-iron finial. Original plank door with ornamental strap hinges, flanked by tall windows with glazing bars. Ground-floor bay window to left has hipped roof with iron cresting. 3 first-floor windows including a gabled oriel. The right return, facing the road, has a canted bay window with diamond pattern slates and lead rolls to the hipped roof: windows with moulded mullions. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Steps down to basement to left of porch retain original iron railings with fleur de lis finials. Octagonal gate piers with pyramidal caps and low garden wall with ramped coping. An unusually small example of a Tudor style villa in one of the better preserved areas of Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9251363331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390650
- 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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