Lantern House Watcombe Lodge
LANTERN HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280010
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Lantern House Watcombe Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- LANTERN HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280010
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lantern House Watcombe Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANTERN HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WATCOMBE LODGE, TEIGNMOUTH 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:
- LANTERN HOUSE, TEIGNMOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WATCOMBE LODGE, TEIGNMOUTH 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 92090 67457
Details
TORQUAY
SX9267 TEIGNMOUTH ROAD, Watcombe 885-1/6/462 (East side) 10/01/75 Watcombe Lodge and Lantern House (Formerly Listed as: TEIGNMOUTH ROAD, Watcombe Watcombe Lodge)
GV II
Villa, divided into two. c1860. Plastered; natural slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts and projecting cornices. PLAN: Approximately rectangular on plan, entrance on west side into corridor from which stair rises. Rear (north) service wing now a separate house. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Hipped slate roof. Asymmetrical 3-bay front with a projecting canted porch with a round-headed doorway with a panelled 2-leaf front door with a fanlight with glazing bars and stained glass. Single-storey canted bay to the right with a parapet and 4-pane sashes. One ground and one first-floor window to the left with sill blocks, glazed with 4-pane sashes. The right return has two 2-storey canted bay with 2-pane sashes. Lead tented canopy on cast-iron brackets projects over ground floor windows. 2:3-window east elevation. The main block has segmental-headed first-floor windows, one tripartite and a canted bay to ground floor left. The service block, to the right has a 3-window front and is gabled to the front in the centre. Windows glazed with probably original 12-pane sashes with sill blocks. Fine 13-bay conservatory across front, canted at each end, with round-headed lights and end pinnacles with lead finials. Adjustable vents along the ridge. INTERIOR: Retains moulded plaster cornices, original joinery, including a stair with turned balusters, and local marble chimneypieces.
Listing NGR: SX9209067457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390819
- 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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