Palm Grove
PALM GROVE, MEADFOOT SEA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280028
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Palm Grove
- Statutory Address:
- PALM GROVE, MEADFOOT SEA ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/08113/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Mike Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280028
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Palm Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALM GROVE, MEADFOOT SEA 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:
- PALM GROVE, MEADFOOT SEA 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 92559 63166
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 MEADFOOT SEA ROAD 885-1/18/171 (South side) Palm Grove
II
Villa, now in use as holiday flats. c1865-75, with later alterations. Plastered; hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered, paired shafts with common moulded cornices. PLAN: 2 rectangular blocks abutting one another with an entrance tower, square on plan, in the angle between the blocks. EXTERIOR: Deep eaves on brackets. 3-window garden (south-east) elevation with 2 gables to the front and rich stucco detail. Band below verges; moulded first-floor sill band. Canted bay with moulded cornice to ground floor left, window with recessed architrave and floating cornice to ground floor right. First-floor windows have segmental-headed arches. First-floor window left has a pediment on consoles. Right-hand window flanked by pilasters with vermiculated rustication, moulded architrave with key block. Windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Right return 2-windows with stuccoed quoins; first floor sill band. Projecting stack to left divides at first-floor level with a round-headed recess with key block between the flues; stack gabled at eaves level. 2 tall ground-floor sashes to the right with floating cornices on consoles; 2 first-floor sashes all glazed similarly to those on garden elevation. 3-stage entrance tower has a hipped slate roof with deep eaves on brackets and a tall finial. Tower canted on the ground floor with a segmental-headed doorway with a 4-panel door, flanked by windows. 2 first-floor sashes, below a projecting cornice on brackets. 3 tall, narrow, round-headed windows to each face of the first floor. Other elevations somewhat plainer. Large C20 addition at south-west. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SX9255963166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390704
- 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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