Watcombe Hill House
WATCOMBE HILL HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206851
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Watcombe Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- WATCOMBE HILL HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09574/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206851
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Watcombe Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATCOMBE HILL HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH 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:
- WATCOMBE HILL HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH 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 91962 67497
Details
TORQUAY
SX9267 TEIGNMOUTH ROAD, Watcombe 885-1/5/461 (South West side) 10/01/75 Watcombe Hill House
GV II
Villa. Said to be 1838 Plastered; slate hipped roof. Stacks with rendered shafts with bracketed cornices. PLAN: Overall rectangular plan with a double-depth south-facing main range, 2 rooms wide: entrance on east return into corridor from which stair rises: services in basement and to north west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window entrance (east) elevation with deep eaves; eaves band and platband. Moulded doorcase with panelled reveals. Recessed front door with 6 fielded panels and unfortunate Georgian style fanlight cut into it. Ground-floor windows with moulded architraves: tall 16-pane sash to left, smaller 12-pane window to right. 3 first- floor 12-pane sashes. To the right a single-storey block with a parapet contains a 12-pane sash. Timber trellis verandah with tent roof with asbestos sheet tiles extends round left return on plain posts. 1:3-window garden (south) elevation with windows with moulded architraves. Ground-floor window left of main block a tall 12-pane sash; centre window blocked; right-hand window converted to French window. 3 first floor 12-pane sashes. Single-storey block at left end with tall 12-pane sash. C20 swimming pool addition at left end. INTERIOR: Original features include plaster cornices; panelled doors; stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail.
Listing NGR: SX9196267497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390818
- 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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