The Vicarage
THE VICARAGE, PALACE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208129
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, PALACE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208129
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICARAGE, PALACE PLACE
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 VICARAGE, PALACE PLACE
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 88595 60776
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8860 PALACE PLACE 1947-1/5/72 The Vicarage
GV II
Vicarage, now subdivided. Foundation stone laid 1910 (plaque), architect unknown to date. MATERIALS: Local red brecia rubble; slate roof laid in diminishing courses; stacks with diagonally set stone shafts. PLAN: The house is built within the precinct walls of the Bishop's medieval palace. The site was re-acquired by the church in 1909. Deep rectangular plan, the main block facing east into the precinct, which is now part of the vicarage garden, services to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys and attic Asymmetrical 2-window east front with a steep peaked roof and central chimney shaft. Recessed 1910 panelled door to right with a porch hood on brackets. Timber casement windows with square leaded panes, 2 to the first floor and one to the ground floor plus a 5-light transomed bow window to ground-floor left, also glazed with square leaded panes. The left (south) return consists of a 4-bay block, then the buttressed gabled end of a wing, then the return of the main block. Main block has a verandah with a lean-to roof and round-headed archway with 2 half-glazed garden doors into the house, one 2-light first-floor casement. To the right the buttressed gabled end of a wing with a 5-light ground-floor bow window, reglazed without leaded panes; 4-light first-floor window and 3-light attic dormer. 4-bay elevation to the left, the left-hand bay gabled with a shallow projecting gabled porch with a 2-panel door with mullioned overlight. One-light first-floor window above. The rest of the front has 3 ground floor ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned ground-floor windows; 3 transomed first-floor windows, 2 casement 2nd-floor windows and a pair of original attic dormers flanking a chimney shaft. The rear elevation has similar windows and a projecting single-storey service wing with a hipped roof; service entrance. The N side of the house butts a tall crow-stepped wall. INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Original stair with good timber balustrade; original joinery includes doors with distinctive vertical panels. A competent example of Edwardian domestic architecture, having group value with the Palace precinct walls and the parish church (qv), which lies to the north east.
Listing NGR: SX8859760779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383845
- 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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