The Grove
THE GROVE, BEACH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207982
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROVE, BEACH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207982
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GROVE, BEACH 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:
- THE GROVE, BEACH 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 93103 65336
Details
TORQUAY
SX96NW BEACH ROAD, Babbacombe 885-1/2/317 (South East side) 10/01/75 The Grove
GV II
House. c1840s - date of 1849 found on paintwork during renovations. Re-planned internally and thoroughly restored externally in the 1990s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Cottage ornee style. PLAN: Deep rectangular central staircase plan: some rear additions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the outer bays bowed and gabled to the front. Very deep eaves on massive brackets; pierced ornamental bargeboards with apex pendants. Central gabled porch with elaborate bargeboards and buttresses; Tudor-arched doorway. C20 French windows to outer bays; 2-light C20 timber casements to first floor, centre window with arched heads. INTERIOR: Modernized and replanned. This house is one of a collection of picturesque small houses built on the steep, wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. The house was derelict and vandalized prior to its thorough renovation.
Listing NGR: SX9310365336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390497
- 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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