The Paignton Club
THE PAIGNTON CLUB, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208205
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Paignton Club
- Statutory Address:
- THE PAIGNTON CLUB, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208205
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Paignton Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PAIGNTON CLUB, THE ESPLANADE
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 PAIGNTON CLUB, THE ESPLANADE
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 89359 60377
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8960 THE ESPLANADE 1947-1/6/95 (South side) 13/03/51 The Paignton Club
GV II
Purpose-built club. 1881. MATERIALS: Stuccoed and blocked out; roof and stacks concealed behind parapet. Classical style. PLAN: On an important side at one end of the esplanade. Double-depth rectangular plan with bowed ends. Central entrance into stair hall, with (formerly) heated rooms to left and right with bowed ends; large first-floor billiard room with smaller offices to left and right. Services originally in the basement, which has been converted to a flat, services now to the rear in a later addition. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 5-bay front with a 5-bay verandah created by an Ionic colonnade with a parapet pierced by small lancets; similar parapet to main block. Verandah has low balustrade on High Victorian cast-iron standards with foliage decoration. Steps up to verandah with C19 central doorway with moulded architrave and with unusual stuccoed brackets supporting a crested cornice; half-glazed door with overlight. The other bays on the ground floor have similar doorways with high-transomed French windows. First-floor windows have similar architraves and brackets but with shallow pediments over; French windows to match ground floor. 3-bay bows to left and right rise to first-floor level and have similar parapets; bays divided by large Corinthian half columns. Round-headed windows in bows have moulded, pilastered architraves with keyblocks. Bays to rear of bows are windowed to match the front. Rear elevation, to Roundham Road, has 3 first-floor pedimented windows and single-storey flat-roofed service addition. INTERIOR: Original joinery includes large 2-leaf panelled doors to ground-floor room from stair hall. Unusual angled timber cornice with pierced pattern. Steep stair with mahogany turned balusters and handrail. Billiard room has decorative roof vents and 2 timber fireplaces of an Edwardian character. Early fittings including tables and scoreboards. Dumb waiter in billiard room, probably original. (DoE: List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: 1975-).
Listing NGR: SX8935960377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383863
- 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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