Fonthill
FONTHILL, TORQUAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269141
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Fonthill
- Statutory Address:
- FONTHILL, TORQUAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269141
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Fonthill
- Statutory Address 1:
- FONTHILL, TORQUAY 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:
- FONTHILL, TORQUAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaldon
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 93095 72060
Details
SHALDON
SX9372 TORQUAY ROAD, Shaldon 25-1/6/88 (South side) 29/07/83 Fonthill
II
House. c1850, altered 1865 and extended 1875, possibly on old foundations. Painted stucco, hipped slate roof with wide eaves and moulded stacks to front left and rear right. Square plan with higher 1875 wing to the right and clock tower to front right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. The c1850 house has chamfered rusticated quoins, moulded architraves and bracketed sills, those to the ground floor have 1875 panelled friezes below elaborate consoles to the cornices. To the right of centre are steps up to an 1875 semicircular 2-storey Tuscan porch with 2-panel double doors and overlight under three 6/6-pane semicircular-arched sash windows with shell keystones and blind balustraded aprons, to the centre is a plaque showing a breach in a Roman wall. The entrance was formerly on the east, symmetrical 3-window range garden side. Similar architraves to the 1st floor 6/6-pane sash windows with margin panes, that to the centre has a segmental arch. To the ground floor are two 1865 French windows in canted bays under a swept verandah canopy which has a pierced wooden frieze and slender cast-iron columns. The rear has a large 1875 canted bay with various windows. INTERIOR: partially inspected; the entrance hall is probably 1875, panelled in oak with a high skirting board, it has 4-panel doors, an elaborate cornice and ceiling rose. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was acquired by the Greame family in 1865 and the plaque over the door shows part of the arms, a breach in the Roman Antonine wall made in 404 AD. A bell tower in the courtyard has been rebuilt. A fine C19 villa, with little C20 alteration.
Listing NGR: SX9309572060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461065
- 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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