GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE

GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218347
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218347
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE

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 92313 67976

Details

TORQUAY

SX96NW ROCK HOUSE LANE, Maidencombe 885-1/2/417 (South side) Gate piers at entrance to Rock House

GV II

Gate piers. c1850. Plastered. 2 pairs of rusticated embattled gate piers linked by short sections of curved embattled wall. Square section piers with plinths and projecting cornices below the battlementing. The outer piers and the walls have coped merlons and embrasures to the battlementing, the battlementing of the inner pair has been repaired in a plainer style. Included for group value with Rock House (qv), which has an embattled parapet.

Listing NGR: SX9231367976

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 390771
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.