The Torbay Inn
THE TORBAY INN, 34, FISHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279594
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Torbay Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE TORBAY INN, 34, FISHER STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06366/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279594
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Torbay Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TORBAY INN, 34, FISHER STREET
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:
- THE TORBAY INN, 34, FISHER STREET
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 88697 60186
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8860 FISHER STREET 1947-1/5/34 (South West side) 10/01/75 No.34 The Torbay Inn (Formerly Listed as: SUNBURY ROAD Torbay Inn)
GV II
Public House. Probably C17 with several phases of alteration (modern date plaque of 1647 on front). MATERIALS: Rendered, probably mostly stone but with some evidence of cob at the right end; slate roofs; left-end stack, rear and front lateral stacks, front lateral stack with brick shaft. PLAN: Core of the plan is a single-depth 3-room and through-passage arrangement, passage to right of centre. Right-hand room heated by front lateral stack. Alterations at the left end have absorbed a former carriageway entrance to the stables at the rear into the pub. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, lateral stack to the far right with slate-hung set-offs, boarded passageway door alongside. 2 late C18 doors to the bars to left, both with moulded doorcases, 6-panel doors with fielded upper panels and gabled, slated porch hoods on moulded brackets, the gables treated as moulded pediments. 3 ground- and 2 first-floor windows are glazed with 2-pane sashes with C20 leaded panes. The first-floor right-hand window is similarly-glazed but lower-set. The left return of the main range has a canted corner and an adjoining angled block, probably late C19 in origin with crested ridge tiles, that originally contained the carriageway entrance to the stables to rear. This block has timber casement windows with glazing bars and is said to have been absorbed into the public bar 12 years ago (information from the landlord). INTERIOR: Any historic features currently concealed by C20 plasterboard, but early carpentry may survive. Roof not seen on survey, it might be C17. It is said to have well-carpentered A-frames with no evidence for smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: SX8869760186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383795
- 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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