The Lawn
THE LAWN, LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209969
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAWN, LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-04-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/06362/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209969
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAWN, LOWER WOODFIELD 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:
- THE LAWN, LOWER WOODFIELD 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 92547 63572
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/146 (North West side) The Lawn
GV II
Villa converted into holiday flats. c1840s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with tall grouped octagonal shafts with projecting cornice. Domestic Tudor style. PLAN: Irregular but approximately rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Plain parapet with chamfered coping above string course. Windows have chamfered architraves and dripmoulds. Irregular 1:1:1-window front. Projecting 2-storey porch on front with a moulded cornice to the parapet. Attractive ogival-arched doorway with a moulded dripmould. Recessed 6-panel front door with Perpendicular-style tracery to the ogival fanlight. Blind first-floor window above. To left of the porch a projecting stack with chamfered strings, a moulded cornice and multiple shafts; one first-floor window to left. Modern single-storey additions built against stack and left and right ends of front. The other elevations continue in the same style. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Particular importance for the picturesque contribution it makes to Torwood Gardens.
Listing NGR: SX9254763572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390678
- 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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