NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS

NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 53, MEADFOOT LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210033
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 53, MEADFOOT LANE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/08113/34
Rights:: © Mr Mike Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210033
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 53, MEADFOOT LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NO 53 AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 53, MEADFOOT LANE

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 92191 63284

Details

TORQUAY

SX9263 MEADFOOT LANE 885-1/18/159 (South side) No.53 and attached front railings

GV II

House, contemporary with Nos 39-51 (qv), which form a symmetrical terrace, and built adjoining the left end. 1865-1875. Probably designed by JW Rowell. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with painted dressings; slate roof; stacks with stone shafts with painted quoins. PLAN: Irregular on plan, the left end built against the wall of Vane Hill Road. Short front projecting wing, entrance on right (inner) return of wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:1:1 window front. Gabled wing in centre has rusticated painted quoins; deep verges on moulded brackets, cusped bargeboards. One ground and one first-floor window each with a painted architrave, reglazed with late C20 windows. To the left of the wing, a cranked archway with painted dressings leads through to the rear of the house; 8-pane sash above. To the right of the wing one ground floor window, late C20 reglazing; first floor 8-pane sash in a gabled dormer with cusped bargeboards. Crank-arched doorway into wing. Garden railings with bud finials. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9219163284

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Legacy System number:: 390693
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.