Presbytery to Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis
PRESBYTERY TO CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ST DENIS, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280039
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Presbytery to Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis
- Statutory Address:
- PRESBYTERY TO CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ST DENIS, PRIORY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280039
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Presbytery to Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESBYTERY TO CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ST DENIS, PRIORY 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:
- PRESBYTERY TO CHURCH OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ST DENIS, PRIORY 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 91911 65903
Details
TORQUAY
SX9165 PRIORY ROAD, St Marychurch 885-1/11/443 (South East side) 10/01/75 Presbytery to Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis
GV II
Presbytery. 1865 to the designs of Joseph Hansom. Snecked local grey limestone with ashlar dressings; slate roof; stacks with ashlar stone shafts, some diagonally-set. PLAN: Deep plan, one-room wide with an entrance adjacent to the priest's door to the church. EXTERIOR: Asymmetrical 3-window front plus one porch bay to the right. Front of house canted with a coped gabled dormer in the centre. Ground-floor windows with paired lancets above a stone transom. Lower windows glazed with 2-pane sashes; first floor centre window similar; outer first-floor windows 2 over 4-pane sashes. Porch block set back to right with a gabled stone porch hood on brackets and plank door with ornamental strap hinges. 3-light stone-mullioned window above. Pyramidal slate roof with sprocketed eaves to end of main house and porch; first-floor moulded string. Left return of presbytery, fronting Priory Road, has a 3-window front with similar windows to the main block and a shallow proejcting stack to the right. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SX9191165903
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390763
- 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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