HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS

HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 42-58, THE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280014
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 42-58, THE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280014
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 42-58, THE TERRACE

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:: HIGHER TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS, 42-58, THE TERRACE

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 91929 63570

Details

TORQUAY

SX9163 THE TERRACE 885-1/17/263 (North side) 20/11/52 Nos.42-58 (Even) Higher Terrace and attached front railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGHER TERRACE, THE TERRACE Nos.42-58 (Even))

GV II

Terrace of 9 houses. 1811 to the designs of Jacob Harvey. The earliest part of Sir Lawrence Palk's development of Torquay. Some later alterations. Houses in use as offices. Plastered; slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts. Classical style. PLAN: Slightly bowed terrace, set high above the harbour, facing south. Centre and end houses broken forward. Each house double-depth on plan. Those to left of centre have entrances to the right, those to right of centre have entrances to the left. Several houses have rear stair projections; services in basement; principal rooms on first floor. End houses entered on the returns. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Deep projecting cornice with plain parapet above. Some unfortunate attic additions. Each house has a 3-bay front except for the 5-bay No.50. Continuous cast-iron balcony with interlace balustrade divided by vertical panels of roundels. Round-headed doorway with moulded architrave. Gibbs surrounds with vermiculated rustication and keyblocks with carved or cast heads; panelled reveals. Original doors 6-panel, mostly with plain fanlights (No.46 has a pretty lead fanlight with a central roundel, similar to those on Beacon Terrace, also designed by Harvey). Segmental-headed windows: ground floor originally 12-pane but reglazed as 2-pane sashes. 12-pane first-floor windows, 3 over 6 on the second floor. No.42 has a very large doorway on the 3-bay west end with rusticated vermiculated architrave, incised moulding to soffit and reveals of doorcase and Greek key moulding below fanlight. 2-leaf door of 6 panels, upper panels with roundels and lozenges; windows mostly original. No.58 has a flat-roofed porch block on the return, c1860, with a projecting cornice and parapet crowned with good cast-iron parapet. Segmental-headed doorway to right. c1860s first-floor canted bay on return leads on to flat roof of porch block. No.50 (in the centre) and No.58 have square-headed doorways on the front with moulded architraves with keyblocks INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Some houses retain good plasterwork cornices with deep relief, including Nos 42, 48, 50. Some retain the ground floor internal partitions with an archway between the 2 rooms. Other features of interest likely to survive but not seen on survey. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Good cast-iron railings with spear finials to basements. HISTORY: An elegant terrace and historically important in the development of Torquay. Early prints, some reproduced in Ellis, show the higher terrace. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.339, 340, 341; Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.857).

Listing NGR: SX9192963570

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Legacy System number:: 390834
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 339-341
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 857
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 857

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