52 AND 56, CECIL ROAD
52 AND 56, CECIL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279681
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 56, CECIL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 52 AND 56, CECIL ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06363/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279681
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 56, CECIL ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52 AND 56, CECIL 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:
- 52 AND 56, CECIL 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 88574 61090
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8961 CECIL ROAD 1947-1/4/7 (North side) 10/01/75 Nos.52 AND 56 (Formerly Listed as: CECIL ROAD Nos.52-58 (Even))
GV II
House and cottage, at one time 3 cottages. Early C17 or earlier origins, extensive C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Roughcast cob on stone rubble footings; slate roof, gabled at left end, hipped at right end; left end stack with rendered shaft; rear right lateral stack with brick shaft; end stack to wing with rendered shaft. PLAN: Overall L-plan. Main block single-depth, 2-rooms wide (No.56) with a rear right wing at right-angles (No.52). Original plan not entirely clear but possibly a 2-room and through-passage arrangement with a heated rear wing. Main block re-roofed in the late C19; various rear additions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic Asymmetrical 3-window front with two C20 timber front doors with C20 slated porch hoods carried on wrought-iron brackets. 3 ground and 3 first-floor windows, all glazed with C20 casements with leaded panes. Large C20 gabled dormer to right of centre. The right return has a similar front door and hood and similar windows, one to each floor. Sun Insurance fire sign fixed to front. INTERIOR: Main block preserves 2 chamfered scroll-stopped crossbeams. Narrow room in centre may be former passage. The right end room has a winder stair on the rear wall, adjacent to the lateral stack. Roof: C19 king post and strut trusses. Part of the early core of Paignton.
Listing NGR: SX8857461090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383774
- 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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