Cliff Cottage
CLIFF COTTAGE, ROUNDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208148
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFF COTTAGE, ROUNDHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208148
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFF COTTAGE, ROUNDHAM 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:
- CLIFF COTTAGE, ROUNDHAM 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:
- SX8940460367
Details
SX8960
1947-1/6/79
13/03/51
PAIGNTON
ROUNDHAM ROAD
(North side)
Cliff Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
ROUNDHAM ROAD
Old World Cottage, Holcombe Cottage, Cliff Cottage)
GV
II
Small house. Probably late C18. Plastered mass wall; thatched
roof with plain ridge, hipped at ends, right-end stack with
rendered shaft, rear left corner stack.
PLAN: L-plan, built adjacent to and above the harbour and
facing away from it. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide
with a central entrance, rear right unheated wing at
right-angles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-window front with c1930s enclosed porch
with hipped tiled roof and half-glazed front door. 2-light
small-pane timber casements.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest,
including an original roof.
HISTORY: Patterson identifies this cottage as the coastguard's
cottage noted in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his 'Panorama of
Torquay' (1831). Paintings and an 1890 photograph of Cliff
Cottage (Tully) show a single-storey outbuilding attached at
the left end.
(Painting at the Paignton Club: 1890-1920; Tully P: Peter
Tully's Pictures of Paignton: 1988-: 37).
Listing NGR: SX8940460367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blewitt, O, Panorama of Torquay, (1831)
Tully, P, Peter Tullys Pictures of Paignton, (1988), 37
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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