2, TOR HILL ROAD
2, TOR HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218897
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 2, TOR HILL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2, TOR HILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218897
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 2, TOR HILL ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, TOR 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:
- 2, TOR 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 91343 64261
Details
TORQUAY
SX9164 TOR HILL ROAD 885-1/14/265 (South side) 01/01/75 No.2
GV II
House and shop. c1840s. Plastered; slate gabled roof; stacks with rendered shafts with moulded cornices, one with multiple chimney pots. PLAN: Corner site between Tor Hill Road and Factory Row. Shop with doorway on corner from Tor Hill Road, accommodation over. Wing to rear, fronting Factory Row, with separate entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Moulded projecting cornice below parapet, flat-topped attic gable on left return to Factory Row. Slightly recessed round corner. 3-window front to Tor Hill Road (including corner). Platband, eaves band. Shop doorway on corner with a half-glazed door with deep overlight and glazed panels to either side. Paired shop window to right divided by pilasters with sunk panels and moulded brackets below the fascia. Right-hand window reduced in size, left-hand window transomed. Fascia recessed over doorway and shop windows and over plain window facing Factory Row, name of shop in raised late C19/early C20 letters on fascia. Left return of main block 3 bays divided by 4 pilasters with capitals below the eaves band. Flat-topped gable above the cornice with a 2-light attic casement flanked by chimney shafts. Other windows 12-pane C19 sashes except ground-floor right (already described), ground-floor centre and first-floor right which are blind. Lower roofed block to the left, roof gabled at left end; axial and left end stack has a 2-window front. 6-panel door to the right, 3 ground-floor 8-pane C20 sashes; 2 first-floor sashes, the right-hand one probably with original 3 over 6-pane glazing, the left-hand one a 2-pane reglazed sash. "Good C19 chemist's lamp with coloured bottle glass and finialed cap" mentioned in 1975 list description is missing, although the bracket survives over the shop doorway. The Tor Hill Road elevation contains a blue tile road sign with white letters. Similar design to sign on Factory Row elevation which reads "To Abbey Road by Albert Steps". INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. An unusual survival of an early shop in the centre of town, on a prominent corner site.
Listing NGR: SX9134364261
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390837
- 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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