BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL

BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL, BEACH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279510
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL
Statutory Address:: BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL, BEACH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-11-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279510
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-May-1994
List Entry Name:: BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL, BEACH 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:: BABBACOMBE CLIFF HOTEL, BEACH 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 92834 65308

Details

TORQUAY

SX9265 BEACH ROAD, Babbacombe 885-1/12/314 (East side) 14/02/72 Babbacombe Cliff Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BEACH ROAD, Babbacombe Cliff House Hotel)

II

Formerly known as: Cliffside Cottage Hotel BEACH ROAD. House, in use as holiday flats. 1878 by WE Nesfield; extended c1920s, some unfortunate late C20 alterations. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sanstone dressings, some slate-hanging; natural scantle slate roof; stacks with moulded brick shafts and caps. Art and Crafts style. PLAN: Overall L-plan: main block facing north over the sea, west wing at right-angles with a carriageway through it at the north end. c1920s extension at east end of main block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic Earlier part of main block has 2-window front with a slate pentice at first-floor level and a moulded timber arched doorway. Single-storey addition to right. Canted slate-hung bay to left with a deep gable over with a 3-light attic window; 3-light window to right. The right return (front of the west wing) is slate-hung on the first floor with 2 gabled, 2-tier canted oriels to the left, the coving of the oriels pargetted, the windows glazed with ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with leaded panes, the first floor with transoms. Similar oriel to right, above the carriage. The right return of the wing has a first floor projecting timber look-out supported on deep timber brackets. INTERIOR: Includes an original stair; good tiling to the entrance lobby; pressed paper moulded ceiling in the first-floor room at the north end of the wing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.862).

Listing NGR: SX9283465308

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 390494
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 862
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 862

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.