Tor View Holiday Flats
TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- TOR VIEW HOLIDAY FLATS, ROUSDOWN 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390779
- 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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