163, NEWTON ROAD
163, NEWTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217986
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 163, NEWTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 163, NEWTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217986
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 163, NEWTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 163, NEWTON 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:
- 163, NEWTON 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 89901 66204
Details
SX 89 66 TORQUAY NEWTON ROAD
(North side)
885-1/7/192 No.163
10.1.75
II*
Pumping house of the South Devon Atmospheric Railway, projected to run between Exeter and Plymouth. 1847-48 by IK Brunel for the South Devon Railway Company. Local grey limestone rubble with some red sandstone and red brick dressings; corrugated asbestos roof, gabled at ends. Italianate style with campanile chimney.
PLAN: 2 parallel adjoining blocks, roofed on a north-south axis, probably intended to contain boilers and beam engine respectively. Chimney at south end of shorter east block.
EXTERIOR: East block single-storey, east block partly floored. 3:2-window end elevation, the chimney external and sited in the centre of the right-hand block. The left-hand block has 3 high-set windows in the gable end. Centre window pilastered and round-headed with a keyblock. The arch is blocked and flanked by square-headed windows with proud architraves. Modern opening below. The right-hand block has 2 round-headed windows with proud architraves on either side of the chimney. Tapering chimney with deep ashlar plinth and tall round-headed recesses on each face. String course towards the top and, above it, corner pilasters. Heavy cornice on moulded corbels below low-pitched pyramidal roof. The left return of the western block has a chamfered string course and 2 large square-headed window with proud architraves. These are probably original. To the left, 3 first and 3 ground-floor windows and a doorway with brick dressings are probably secondary .
INTERIOR: Altered or present usage. Roof of western block concealed. Eastern block has timber tie beam trusses the purlins held on cleats.
An account of the railway is given in Hadfield's 'Atmospheric Railways' (1985). The Starcross pumping house from the operational section of the same line, is the only complete pumping house to survive from the 3 operational atmospheric lines in the British Isles. Campanile chimney here is more complete than at Starcross. The building was never used for its original purpose.
Bibliography
4418 Atmospheric Railways (Charles Hadfield), 1985
4418 The Buildings of England, Devon South (Nikolaus Pevsner) , 1952, Page(s) 855
4418 The Buildings of England, Devon (Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry), 1989, Page(s) 855
Listing NGR: SX8990166204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 855
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 855
Hadfield, C, Atmospheric Railways - A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed, (1985)
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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