Chelston Manor Hotel
CHELSTON MANOR HOTEL, OLD MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280034
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CHELSTON MANOR HOTEL, OLD MILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280034
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHELSTON MANOR HOTEL, OLD MILL 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:
- CHELSTON MANOR HOTEL, OLD MILL 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:
- SX9028563751
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston
885-1/17/337 (East side)
20/11/52 Chelston Manor Hotel
II
Shown on OS map as Chelston Manor.
House, in use as hotel. Late C16/early C17 with extensive C19
alterations, said to have been the dower house to Cockington
Court (old list description) and owned by the Mallock family
in the C19. Plastered; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with
octagonal rendered shafts with projecting cornices.
PLAN: Single-depth main block 2 rooms wide with a central
entrance; rear left wing at right-angles; rear right additions
and rear block parallel to main range arranged round rear
courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey main block. Symmetrical 5-window front with
regular fenestration plus one bay to the outshut at the left
end. Early C19 central gabled porch with a coped gable with
kneelers; Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould; small one-light
windows in returns. Ground and first-floor windows with
hoodmoulds, glazed with high-transomed casements with
hollow-chamfered frames with square leaded panes with some
original C17 window furniture surviving. 5 smaller first-floor
windows, also with hoodmoulds, glazed with casements with
square leaded panes. Front lateral stacks at either end of
main range with paired shafts. 2-storey block at left end with
lean-to roof, glazed with similar high transomed windows.
Right return of main range has a shallow 3-storey projecting
bay.
INTERIOR: Some early C19 features include plasterwork and
6-panel doors; early C18 stair with turned balusters and a
flat handrail.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989:
P.865).
Listing NGR: SX9028563751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 865
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 865
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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