The Georgian House
THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, PARK HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218172
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Georgian House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, PARK HILL ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14194/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218172
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Georgian House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, PARK HILL 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:
- THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, PARK HILL 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 92417 63116
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 PARK HILL ROAD 885-1/18/213 (East side) 10/01/75 The Georgian House (Formerly Listed as: PARKHILL ROAD Gerogian House)
GV II
Shown on OS map as Faldonside. Villa, now in use as old people's home. c1830s with c1850s addition and late C20 rear additions. Plastered stacks with rendered shafts and moulded cornices. PLAN: Double-depth main block, approximately square on plan, with entrance into an open well stair hall with main rooms off. Probably slightly later service wing adjoins at right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front plus one-bay wing to right. First-floor and eaves platband, outer pilaster strips from platband to eaves. Shallow projecting stacks to left and right of centre, with shafts projecting through roof. Centre bay has first and second-floor 12-pane sash, second-floor sash in right-hand chimney shaft. Round-headed sashes to ground-floor left and right. Large, elaborate 3-bay Roman Doric porch, possibly an Edwardian addition. Freestanding and engaged columns with an entablature; round-headed outer doorway with pilasters and keyblock; round-headed openings in outer bays with keyblocks and ramped balustrading. Mosaic floor to porch. Gabled wing to right with round-headed 2-pane sashes to first and second floors and tripartite segmental-headed sash to ground floor. Left return of main block of 3 bays divided by pilasters above first-floor platband; round-headed ground-floor sashes; other windows 2-pane sashes with one modern replacement. INTERIOR: Good plaster cornice to stair hall with delicate acanthus pattern; open well stick baluster stair with galleried landings; panelled doors.
Listing NGR: SX9241763116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390751
- 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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