St Vincent's House
ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, MEADFOOT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206806
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Vincent's House
- Statutory Address:
- ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, MEADFOOT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206806
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Vincent's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, MEADFOOT 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 VINCENT'S HOUSE, MEADFOOT 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 92275 63460
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 MEADFOOT ROAD 885-1/18/165 (North side) 10/01/75 St Vincent's House (Formerly Listed as: MEADFOOT ROAD St Vincent)
GV II
Villa, later developed as an hotel, now divided into flats. c1830. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with sunk panels and corbelled cornices on moulded corbels, some original tapering pots. PLAN: Rectangular double-depth main block, entrance on the east side with a service block to the north-east. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window 2-storey entrance front. Deep eaves; eaves band. Shallow projecting stacks to left and right. Fine projecting open porch with paired, fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a modillion frieze below the cornice. Parapet to porch with sections of fine cast-iron balustrade with palmette and anthemion decoration. Windows are 12-pane sashes except 9 over 12-pane stair window with margin panes and a stained glass border. Left return 3-bay with eaves band and pilaster strips: 12-pane first-floor sashes and 18-pane ground floor sashes. West elevation in a similar style with a 2-storey canted bay. INTERIOR: Retains some original detail including Greek motifs and plasterwork. HISTORY: Joseph Marchetti ran the Queen's Hotel until c1833 when he moved here (then called Apsley House) and ran it as a private hotel. In 1845 Queen Adelaide and suite stayed and in 1854 Marie Amelia, ex-queen of the French and her suite. (Ellis). (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.354).
Listing NGR: SX9227563460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 354
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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