1-29, PRINCES ROAD
1-29, PRINCES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280037
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-29, PRINCES ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1-29, PRINCES ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-08-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/08114/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280037
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-29, PRINCES ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-29, PRINCES 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:
- 1-29, PRINCES 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 91756 64377
Details
TORQUAY
SX9164 PRINCES ROAD 885-1/14/215 (East side) Nos.1-29 (Odd)
GV II
Terrace of 15 houses for workers. Probably 1860s, designed by JW Rowell as part of the development around Ellacombe Green, presented to the town in 1859 by Sir Lawrence Palk. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with brick dressings; slate roofs; stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: Terrace overlooking Ellacombe Green. Houses slightly smaller than those up Ellacombe Road (qv). One room on plan, each house with a small unheated rear service wing at right-angles with a narrow yard alongside. Houses identical except for larger ones at either end and No.15 in the centre, which has a different design. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. One-window front to each house with a gabled dormer. Front door to right in a crank-arched doorway. The original doors (some replaced) are vertically boarded with a triangular light cut out of the top. Ground-floor window with crank-arched voussoirs, glazed with a 3-light high-transomed casement. Similarly-glazed 2-light first floor window with crank-arched voussoirs. No.1, to the right, consists of 2 blocks with a standard front to the right but with the front door to the left and, to the left, a projecting one-window wing with a half-hipped roof to the front and matching windows. No.29 the same but mirror plan. No.15, in the centre, is gabled to the front; front door to the right; first-floor window with a pointed-arched tympanum with polychromatic detail. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Part of an exceptionally well-planned and designed group of mid C19 workers' housing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.862).
Listing NGR: SX9175664377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390758
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 862
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 862
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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