Stable Block, Laundry and Service Yard Wall Immediately East of Parkfield
STABLE BLOCK, LAUNDRY AND SERVICE YARD WALL IMMEDIATELY EAST OF PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208024
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block, Laundry and Service Yard Wall Immediately East of Parkfield
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK, LAUNDRY AND SERVICE YARD WALL IMMEDIATELY EAST OF PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208024
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block, Laundry and Service Yard Wall Immediately East of Parkfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK, LAUNDRY AND SERVICE YARD WALL IMMEDIATELY EAST OF PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM 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:
- STABLE BLOCK, LAUNDRY AND SERVICE YARD WALL IMMEDIATELY EAST OF PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM 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 89351 61251
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8961 LOWER POLSHAM ROAD 1947-1/4/60 (North side) Stable block, laundry and service yard wall immediately east of Parkfield
GV II
Stable block, laundry and service yard wall. c1860s. MATERIALS: Stable block and laundry cement-rendered and blocked out; corrugated-asbestos roofs; stacks with rendered shafts. Service yard wall stone rubble, stuccoed on the S side where it faces onto the garden. PLAN: The buildings front the service yard to W of Parkfield (qv). The are both roofed on a N-S axis. Stable to the N incorprates carriage house at S end and is linked to the laundry by a later open-fronted lean-to between the 2 buildings. The wall completes the yard on the S side and incorporates a round-headed doorway from the garden. EXTERIOR: 2-storey stable with hipped roof. Plank doors to carriage house at right end with two 16-pane sashes over. The stable end, to the left, is symmetrical with a central doorway flanked by 10-pane sashes with vertical glazing bars, loft loading door over. Single-storey laundry with gable-ended roof and 3-bay front. Recessed plank doors to left and right, segmental-headed 16-pane sash to centre. Right return has tripartite sash with segmental head. INTERIOR: Stable preserves paved floor and some original loose box partitions, one with a acorn finial, and timber feeding troughs. Ladder stair to loft. To right of the stable a tack room heated by a small range on the party wall with the stable. Stick baluster stair leads to first floor over carriage house. The first floor is plastered out and heated by a range. Laundry has plain interior with brick base for a copper and retains some fittings including mangle and timber crib-like troughs for washing. Included for group value with Parkfield house which has remarkably well-preserved service rooms, complete with fixtures and fittings. HISTORY: The asbestos sheeting on the roof is said to be a very early use of this material (information from Borough surveyor). The family who lived at Parkfield are said to have been involved in the manufacture of asbestos sheeting.
Listing NGR: SX8935161251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383832
- 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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