Woodfield
WOODFIELD, LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206798
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield
- Statutory Address:
- WOODFIELD, LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206798
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODFIELD, LOWER 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:
- WOODFIELD, LOWER 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 92449 63498
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/147 (West side) Woodfield
GV II
Villa. 1840s, early C20 alterations. Converted to holiday accommodation. Built by Harvey (Ellis) for Edward Vivian, co-founder of the Torquay Natural History Society, re-using some material from Torwood Manor House (Ellis). Local grey limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; masonry of Edwardian additions brought to course; slate roofs; stacks with rendered, diagonally-set shafts with deep cornices. PLAN: Irregular plan, stepping down the steep slope with a first-floor entrance on the east side onto Woodfield Road. EXTERIOR: 1, 2, and 3 storeys. 3-bay entrance elevation with an early C20 projecting porch to the left with a coped gable with kneelers, a Tudor-arched outer doorway and an early C20 two-leaf door. Single-storey early C20 projection in the centre is embattled and incorporates a 5-light mullioned and transomed stair window with stained glass. Left-hand bay blind with a projecting stack with triple shafts. Irregular 5-window west front with 2 gables, a canted bay window on the ground floor with a parapet and some original glazing of octagonal panes with margin glazing. Other windows 2- and 3-light with moulded frames and mullions. Edwardian addition to the left is roughcast and includes a bowed oriel on a buttress. INTERIOR: Mostly early C20, including the stair but retains a pretty 1840s Gothick chimneypiece in the hall. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.266).
Listing NGR: SX9244963498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 266
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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