CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST MANOR BARN COTTAGE AND STONE WALLS TO EAST

CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 2, OLD TORWOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218053
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST MANOR BARN COTTAGE AND STONE WALLS TO EAST
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 2, OLD TORWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218053
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST MANOR BARN COTTAGE AND STONE WALLS TO EAST
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 2, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: MANOR BARN COTTAGE AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 1, OLD TORWOOD ROAD

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:: CLIFTON COTTAGES AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 2, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
Statutory Address:: MANOR BARN COTTAGE AND STONE WALLS TO EAST, 1, OLD TORWOOD 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 92542 63750

Details

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/199 (South side) 10/01/75 Manor Barn Cottage (No.1) Clifton Cottages (No.2) and stone walls to east

GV II

Barn, extended and altered as carriage house at one end, now converted into cottages. Difficult to date from surviving details but probably late C15 or C16 in origin; late C19 carriage house conversion, C20 conversion into cottages. Painted stone rubble barn, rear wall rendered; slate gabled roof; carriage house stone rubble with brick dressings; brick stacks. PLAN: A large rectangular barn with the remnants of a midstrey porch and no evidence of opposed rear entrance. The conversions have taken place within the old walls but with an extension at the left (south) end. EXTERIOR: Very altered. 2 storeys. 4:3 window front. The north end of the barn preserves a massive central buttress with a set-off; rear (west) elevation has 5 buttresses with set-offs. The front of Manor Barn Cottage retains the remnants of the midstrey: stone cheeks with a lean-to slate roof. Numerous modern openings, including roof lights, in the barn roof. Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Cottages preserve the character of the carriage house including the doorway, and has a higher-roofed addition at the left end. INTERIOR: Manor Barn Cottage inspected. No evidence of an early roof seen on survey. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall stone rubble walls, probably coeval with the barn, around the east side gardens. HISTORY: Although very altered this represents a fragment of pre-C19 Torquay. Torwood Grange was owned by Torre Abbey until 1540 when it was granted to John Ridgeway and Sir Thomas Denys. The manor house was pulled down in 1843 by the Harvey brothers when the site was developed with villas. Ellis includes a reproduction of the Reverend John Swete's c1780 sketch of the barn and its relationship to the manor house, p.263. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay: 1930-: PP.254-266).

Listing NGR: SX9254263750

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 390734
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 254-266

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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.