Freemasons Lodge of St John
FREEMASONS LODGE OF ST JOHN, PARK HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206823
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Freemasons Lodge of St John
- Statutory Address:
- FREEMASONS LODGE OF ST JOHN, PARK HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206823
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Freemasons Lodge of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREEMASONS LODGE OF ST JOHN, PARK HILL ROAD
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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:
- FREEMASONS LODGE OF ST JOHN, PARK HILL 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 91993 63345
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 PARK HILL ROAD 885-1/17/209 (East side) 21/01/85 Freemasons Lodge of St John
GV II
Freemason's Lodge of St John. 1857 (dated rainwater head), to the designs of Edward Appleton. Snecked local grey limestone with polychromatic brick and Bathstone dressings; slate roof with lead rolls and ventilation pot (flache missing); stone stack with stone shaft. Venetian Gothic style. PLAN: Built into the side of Vane Hill. Tall 3-bay block to the north, originally arranged as the meeting room and library of the Torquay Natural History Society; masonic hall above. Lower roofed block to the south includes doorway in a canted corner, former robing room and staircase. EXTERIOR: 3-bay main block with fancy moulded brick corbels under the eaves. Three 3-light windows, each light trefoil-headed with brick banding, divided by shafts. The windows are in chamfered 2-centred arched recesses with polychromatic detail in the tympanum. 3 corbelled dormers, the outer ones with 2-light windows matching those below. Central dormer with battered sides. Masonic symbols in gables. 2-centred triple-chamfered doorway in canted corner with a brick arch and shafts. Original stone porch hood on brackets; 2-light window over matching the others, 2 one-light trefoil-headed windows to left of porch. The left return has a stone Star of David window, the right return has an upper doorway (converted from a window) reached by a bridge from the steps up to Vane Hill. INTERIOR: Open roof to masonic lodge (1985 list description). Access to interior unobtainable. A handsome, roguish example of Venetian Gothic Revival.
Listing NGR: SX9199363345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390747
- 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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