VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE

VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE, 3-21, TORWOOD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280016
Date first listed:: 23-May-1973
List Entry Name:: VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE
Statutory Address:: VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE, 3-21, TORWOOD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280016
Date first listed:: 23-May-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE
Statutory Address 1:: VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE, 3-21, TORWOOD STREET

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:: VICTORIAN SHOPPING ARCADE, 3-21, TORWOOD 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 92014 63471

Details

TORQUAY

SX9263 TORWOOD STREET 885-1/18/283 (South side) 23/05/73 Nos.3-21 (Odd) Victorian Shopping Arcade (Formerly Listed as: TORWOOD STREET Compass Club and Torquay Motors)

GV II

Designed as a theatre but never completed; in use as shopping precinct. 1909-15. To designs of PR Wood. Bathstone ashlar; roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with stone shafts with moulded cornices. Neo-Baroque style. PLAN: On a corner site, long side to Torwood Street, entrance on return, facing up Torwood Street. Interior gutted for shops. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Grand symmetrical 1:5:1-bay elevation to Torwood Street. Ground-floor bays divided by rusticated piers with fascia and projecting cornice on brackets. Centre 5 bays broken forward and divided, above ground floor, by giant engaged Ionic columns with an entablature and dentil cornice below the parapet. Large windows with moulded architraves and overlights glazed with small panes. Recessed outer bays with rusticated quoins. Round-headed windows have eared architraves, moulded keystones and sill brackets; panels below carved with names of Irving and Garrick. Statue groups of Fame and Justice over outer bays. The entrance elevation on the left return is 1:3:1 bays, the centre 3 bays, canted, pedimented and broken forward on Doric columns, upper storey divided by Ionic pilasters, relief of Neptune in pediment. INTERIOR: Modernised. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Cherry B: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.856).

Listing NGR: SX9201463471

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Legacy System number:: 390851
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 856
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 856

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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.