MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE

MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206831
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD

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Date:: 2005-04-14
Reference:: IOE01/12132/02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206831
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MARGARET CLITHEROW HOUSE, PRIORY 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 91946 65862

Details

TORQUAY

SX9165 PRIORY ROAD, St Marychurch 885-1/11/444 (South East side) 10/01/75 Margaret Clitherow House (Formerly Listed as: PRIORY ROAD Priory of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis)

GV II

Orphanage, later used as priory. 1865 to the designs of Joseph Hansom. Local grey rock-faced limestone, laid to course with ashlar quoins and freestone dressings; gabled slate roofs; stacks with ashlar stone shafts and brattished cornices. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Long 9-window entrance front with 6 coped gables; moulded string at first-floor level. Moulded arched doorway to left with hoodmould and recessed 2-leaf plank front door with elaborte strap hinges. Stone mullioned windows with chamfered mullions, transomed on the ground floor some with trefoil-headed or lancet lights above the transom. First-floor windows square-headed. Some second- floor windows with trefoil-headed lights. 6th bay from the left has a 2-storey canted bay with hipped stone roof. Square bay with stone roof across left-hand ground-floor corner, facing towards the church. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9194665862

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Legacy System number:: 390764
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.