Walls to Court East and North Eat of Oldway Mansion, Including Pair of Sphinxes
WALLS TO COURT EAST AND NORTH EAT OF OLDWAY MANSION, INCLUDING PAIR OF SPHINXES, TORQUAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208324
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Walls to Court East and North Eat of Oldway Mansion, Including Pair of Sphinxes
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS TO COURT EAST AND NORTH EAT OF OLDWAY MANSION, INCLUDING PAIR OF SPHINXES, TORQUAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208324
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Walls to Court East and North Eat of Oldway Mansion, Including Pair of Sphinxes
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS TO COURT EAST AND NORTH EAT OF OLDWAY MANSION, INCLUDING PAIR OF SPHINXES, TORQUAY 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:
- WALLS TO COURT EAST AND NORTH EAT OF OLDWAY MANSION, INCLUDING PAIR OF SPHINXES, TORQUAY 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 88835 61548
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/104 (West side) Walls to court E and NE of Oldway Mansion, including pair of sphinxes
GV II
Courtyard walls to court E and NE of Oldway Mansion, incorporating pair of sphinxes flanking entrance to terraced garden east of the house. c1904-1907, probably contemporary with the remodelling of Oldway Mansion (qv), for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A Duchesne, a leading French formal landscape architect. Concrete, the sphinxes with a hardcore core. The walls bound the eastern part of an oval courtyard with entrances on the north and east sides and an entrance to the gardens on the south side. Concrete walls with plain coping and balustraded bays; bulbous balusters to the gardens and curved sections, ovoid balusters to the straight sections. Large concrete sphinxes flank the entrance to the gardens. Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion (qv) which has a number of garden items contemporary with the early C20 recasting of the house. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).
Listing NGR: SX8883561548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 839-840
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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