TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS

TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218390
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS
Statutory Address:: TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-27
Reference:: IOE01/05593/30
Rights:: © Mr Ernie W. King. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218390
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS
Statutory Address 1:: TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN 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:: TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN 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 90435 63808

Details

TORQUAY

SX9063 ROUSDOWN ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/342 (North East side) Tor View Holiday Flats

GV II

Villa, divided into holiday flats. c1870s. Plastered; hipped slate roofs; stacks with plastered shafts with deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular main block with entrance on the west side and north service wing. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: Deep eaves on moulded paired eaves brackets. Stuccoed quoins; eaves band; moulded sill band; platband. Asymmetrical 2:2-window front (2 window service block set back to left). Main block broken forward in the centre with a hipped roof and left and right pilasters with sunk panels. Round-headed doorway with half-glazed front door with plain overlight, pair of first-floor round-headed windows with pilastered architraves and keyblocks. Shallow projecting lateral stack to right-hand bay with scratch-moulded panels. Left-hand bay has one first and one ground floor sash with ovolo-moulded frames, glazed with 2 over 2 pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Glazed porch-cum-conservatory across front with narrow segmental-headed lights, a dentil eaves cornice and gable over the (replaced) door. Service wing set back to left has paired 2-pane sash windows with ovolo-moulded frames. Right return in the same style has 2 canted bay windows. Rear elevation, prominent from the Exeter road, is also very intact with original windows and stuccoed detail. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Paired with Ambrook (qv). A good example of a conventionally-planned later Torquay villa in an unspoiled suburb.

Listing NGR: SX9043563808

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Legacy System number:: 390779
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.