Mocha Cafe

MOCHA CAFE, PROSPECT PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215960
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:
Mocha Cafe
Statutory Address:
MOCHA CAFE, PROSPECT PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215960
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:
Mocha Cafe
Statutory Address 1:
MOCHA CAFE, PROSPECT PLACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MOCHA CAFE, PROSPECT PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Sidmouth
National Grid Reference:
SY 12642 87240

Details

PROSPECT PLACE 1. 1633 Mocha Cafe SY 1287 1/113 II GV 2. Early C19 of 3 and 2 storeys stuccoed. The 3 storey part adjoins Prospect Cafe. 3 windows 2nd floor and 2 large French windows 1st floor in architrave surrounds. Tent roof balcony with trellis supports and fascia cut to trefoil pattern. Splayed bay windows ground floor, one modern. The 2 storey corner block with Esplanade is probably an older building also considerably altered. Stuccoed with steep pitch hipped slate roof, boxed eaves. 2 windows to Prospect Place, the balcony with later balustrade and no canopy continued to corner. Ground floor modernised. Esplanade front has 3 large sash windows 1st floor, one rectangular bay and dormers. Modern casements ground floor. Despite alterations remains suitably in scale.

The Prospect Cafe and Mocha Cafe form a group with the Beach House on the Esplanade.

Listing NGR: SY1264287240

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
401254
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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