Grey House
GREY HOUSE, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280035
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Grey House
- Statutory Address:
- GREY HOUSE, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08114/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280035
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Grey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREY HOUSE, OLD TORWOOD 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:
- GREY HOUSE, OLD TORWOOD 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 92721 63947
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/197 (North side) Grey House
GV II
Villa, divided into flats. c1850s. Cement-rendered; hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands and projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide. South garden front; entrance on west side with access from a lane shared with Cambridge Lodge (qv); rear service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front. Deep eaves on brackets; eaves band; sill band. Left and right pilaster strips to ground floor; stuccoed, rusticated quoins to first floor. Projecting porch in centre bay with a round-headed doorway with a moulded architrave and moulded string at the springing of the arch. The porch has a deeply projecting moulded cornice below a parapet. To right of the porch a shallow projecting stack, shaft projecting through eaves. Ground-floor window left and first-floor windows left and centre have moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane sashes (centre window lower sash replaced with 1-pane). Plainer 3-window lower roofed service wing to left with sash windows. 2-window garden elevation in the same style with a canted bay window to ground-floor right with moulded architraves, cornice and parapet. Louvred shutters to first-floor windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. Complete externally and an attractive pair with Cambridge Lodge (qv).
Listing NGR: SX9272163947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390733
- 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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