Cary Estate Office
CARY ESTATE OFFICE, PALK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218094
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cary Estate Office
- Statutory Address:
- CARY ESTATE OFFICE, PALK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218094
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cary Estate Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARY ESTATE OFFICE, PALK STREET
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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:
- CARY ESTATE OFFICE, PALK STREET
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 91813 63557
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 PALK STREET 885-1/17/202 (West side) Cary Estate Office
GV II
Office of the Cary Estate. Probably 1859 when the building became the Devon and Cornwall Bank (Ellis, p.276). Became the Cary Estate Office in 1908. Rock-faced breccia, brought to course; polished pink granite, terracotta and Ham Hill dressings; slate roof, rounded at the north end with a fleche, gabled to south; stacks with brick shafts with cornices. Basically Italianate style with some Rococco detail. PLAN: On a prominent corner site facing north up Fleet Street with a rounded corner. EXTERIOR: Tall and narrow. 3 storeys and attic 5-bay rounded north end, 4 bays to each side. Bays divided by pilasters, rusticated to ground and first floors, panelled to second floor. Projecting cornice at first-floor level, platbands to second floor and below dentil eaves cornice. Large ground-floor windows with moulded architraves and rounded upper corners, C20 glazing with glazing bars. Other windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. First-floor windows with swan-necked pediments and moulded architraves; second-floor windows flanked by pilasters. Centre front bay has segmental pediment over first-floor window and pedimented dormer above eaves cornice. Flat-roofed single-storey bay to left of curved end has pilasters flanking on 2-tier plate glass window. Large round-headed doorway on east end in wider end bay with moulded architrave and keystone, paired windows above. Rear end wall stuccoed with first-floor access onto 3-bay single-storey flat-roofed block at south end. This has a pretty 1830s anthemia cast-iron balustrade. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. The Cary family, along with the Palk family, were responsible for the development of Torquay in the C19. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.276).
Listing NGR: SX9181363557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390740
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 276
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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