Torre Abbey Cottage
TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, 1, WALNUT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206872
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Torre Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, 1, WALNUT ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206872
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Torre Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, 1, WALNUT ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, FALKLAND 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:
- TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, 1, WALNUT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- TORRE ABBEY COTTAGE, FALKLAND 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 90628 63896
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 WALNUT ROAD 885-1/17/298 (South side) 09/02/88 No.1 Torre Abbey Cottage
GV II
Small detached house. c1900. Flemish bond brick, some timber-framing with rendered panels; slate roof, half-hipped at ends with some pierced ridge tiles; stacks with tall brick shafts with corbelled caps. South eastern Vernacular Revival style. PLAN: Irregular L-plan with a porch on the west side in the corner between 2 blocks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves; brick plinth; first floor with 2 shallow jetties between brick cheeks with stone corbels. Asymmetrical one-window west front, projecting wing to the right. Open timber porch with gabled roof to the left, into the set-back block. Small-pane French window in end of wing with flanking glazed panels and segmental arched head. First-floor French window above in jettied section, onto timber balcony with boarded balustrade pierced with roundels. Other elevations in a similar style with segmental-headed ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. HISTORY: Sited close to the entrance of Torre Abbey; one of a group of estate buildings, for the Cary family, long-time owners of the Abbey; formerly the butler's house.
Listing NGR: SX9062863896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390880
- 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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