Town Hall
TOWN HALL, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208816
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208816
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWN HALL, MANOR 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:
- TOWN HALL, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MANOR 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 92148 65701
Details
TORQUAY
SX9265 FORE STREET, St Marychurch 885-1/12/436 (South West side) Town Hall
GV II
Town Hall. 1883 by Bridgman. Snecked rock-faced local grey limestone with Ham Hill and ashlar limestone dressings. Natural slate roofs: hipped, gabled and mansard; with fish-scale slates to the entrance tower. Stacks with yellow brick shafts with corbelled caps. PLAN: On a corner site between Fore Street and Manor Road with a circular entrance tower recessed in the angle between the blocks. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Ham Hill and limestone ashlar bands and moulded strings; windows mostly round-headed with moulded stone arches; ground floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes; second floor windows transomed casements with stained glass above the transoms. Asymmetrical front: 5 windows to Fore Street; 3 windows to the entrance tower; 4 windows to Manor Road. 3-stage entrance tower with a round-headed doorway with plain fanlight and Ham Hill architrave with keyblock. Original door with horizontal panels, round-headed windows to left and right. Above the doorway a stone balustraded balcony on big moulded consoles. Round-headed French window onto balcony, flanked by smaller windows. The third stage of the tower has 3 windows, flanked by Ham Hill pilasters with an entablature. Corbelled eaves brackets above with a cornice to the pyramidal slate roof which has sprocketed eaves. Manor Road elevation of 1:3 bays, the 3 bays symmetrical and gabled to the front in the centre bay with parapets to the flanking bays all above deeply projecting cornices. Central round-headed doorway with original door, flanked by windows. Big central first-floor stone-mullioned 3-light window with 3 transoms, to light hall; flanked by round-headed windows; large oculus to centre bay above. The left-hand bay of this elevation has a gabled parapet and one ground and one first-floor window. 2:2-bay Fore Street elevation, broken forward to the left, which is 3 storeys with a hipped roof. Mansard roof to the right with attic dormers. INTERIOR: Not inspected but said to retain original features.
Listing NGR: SX9214865701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390615
- 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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