Holmwood
HOLMWOOD, LINCOMBE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206792
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Holmwood
- Statutory Address:
- HOLMWOOD, LINCOMBE DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206792
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Holmwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLMWOOD, LINCOMBE DRIVE
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:
- HOLMWOOD, LINCOMBE DRIVE
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 92890 63272
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 LINCOMBE DRIVE 885-1/18/126 (South side) 10/01/75 Holmwood
GV II
Villa, now subdivided. 1840-41 (previous List description). Plastered walls; hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Rectangular double-depth main range with entrance on west side and service block to north. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves; corner pilasters; eaves band. Main block has one-window entrance front, pedimented gable to the left; shallow projecting stack to the right. Projecting porch with pilasters and entablature. Single-storey bay to left with 20-pane fixed window; 12-pane first-floor sash. Conservatory across front to right. Service block to left, now in separate ownership, is 3 storeys and 2 windows with a square-headed doorway with plain overlight. Garden (south) elevation with dentil eaves frieze, 2 shallow projecting bays with pedimented gables containing laurel wreaths. Later canted bays with parapets to ground floor glazed with 2 over 3- and 6 over 9-pane sashes. First-floor tripartite windows reglazed as plate glass sashes with Venetian shutters. 5-bay verandah across front on timber posts with glazed roof. INTERIOR: Some alteration but retains original joinery and plasterwork. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: DoE: Borough of Torbay: 1975-: P.153).
Listing NGR: SX9289063272
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390658
- 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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