Melbourne Tower Hotel and Tower Hall Hotel
MELBOURNE TOWER HOTEL AND TOWER HALL HOTEL, SOLSBRO ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206836
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Tower Hotel and Tower Hall Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- MELBOURNE TOWER HOTEL AND TOWER HALL HOTEL, SOLSBRO ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206836
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Tower Hotel and Tower Hall Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELBOURNE TOWER HOTEL AND TOWER HALL HOTEL, SOLSBRO 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:
- MELBOURNE TOWER HOTEL AND TOWER HALL HOTEL, SOLSBRO 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 90433 63641
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 ROUSDOWN ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/340 (West side) Melbourne Tower Hotel and Tower Hill Hotel
GV II
Pair of villas, both in use as hotels. 1870s. Plastered; natural slate roofs with wrought-iron finials; stacks with rendered shafts with deep moulded cornices and shaped sunk panels. PLAN: Mirror-plan pair, each with front wings, entrances on the outer returns and rear service wings at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and half-basement with 3-storey entrance towers. Lavish external detail. Each entrance elevation has a projecting central 3-stage tower with a pyramidal roof; one window to the left, elevation blind to the right. Deep eaves with dentil cornice; moulded sill band; platband. Tower with pilaster strips; round-headed doorway and round-headed windows with keyblocks to the returns. Projecting cornice with dentil frieze at first floor level with stucco pediment over. 2nd stage has paired round-headed windows with moulded architraves and keyblocks. Triple windows to 3rd stage of tower with paired pilasters. To left of the tower one ground- and one first-floor 2-pane sash. To right of the tower a shallow projecting sash. The 2-window front elevation of each villa has a gabled outer wing with a 2-storey canted bay. Gable decorated with stucco arch; bay with brattished balustrading to left and right. Ground-floor windows square-headed with proud architraves; first-floor windows round-headed, all glazed with 2-pane sashes. Shallower 1-bay projection towards centre has similarly treated windows and hipped roof. Division between villas marked by pilaster. Tower Hill Hotel, to the right, has a single-storey flat-roofed addition to left of the entrance tower. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to retain features of interest. A grand typically Torbay design in a prominent position in Chelston, an unspoiled C19 suburb of Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9043363641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390778
- 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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