Entrance Gates and Pavilions at Recreation Ground Entrance Pavilions and Gates at Recreation Ground
ENTRANCE GATES AND PAVILIONS AT RECREATION GROUND, TORBAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280040
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates and Pavilions at Recreation Ground Entrance Pavilions and Gates at Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND PAVILIONS AT RECREATION GROUND, TORBAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280040
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates and Pavilions at Recreation Ground Entrance Pavilions and Gates at Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND PAVILIONS AT RECREATION GROUND, TORBAY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ENTRANCE PAVILIONS AND GATES AT RECREATION GROUND, RATHMORE ROAD
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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:
- ENTRANCE GATES AND PAVILIONS AT RECREATION GROUND, TORBAY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE PAVILIONS AND GATES AT RECREATION GROUND, RATHMORE 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 90702 63429
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 RATHMORE ROAD 885-1/17/219 (East side) Entrance pavilions and gates at Recreation Ground
GV II
Entrance pavilions incorporating ticket offices to recreation ground. 1910 (Ellis). Local grey Torquay limestone ashlar; timber canopies; lead roof; iron gates. Eclectic style with some Gothic detail. PLAN: Pair of octagonal pavilions with turnstyles and vehicular gates in between and pedestrian gates to left and right. EXTERIOR: Plinth with fielded stone panels; string course below high-transomed windows to each face, divided by pilasters with moulded capitals. Octagonal timber canopy over windows on decorated cast-iron brackets, the canopy with a timber fascia with roundels and a bold dentil course below the cornice. Timber pendants and finials to each angle. Pyramidal lead roof to the canopy, interrupted by an octagonal open timber lantern with round-headed arches, a deep moulded cornice and a pyramidal lead roof decorated with lead gables with cast-iron finials. Narrow doorways in north face of each pavilion. Windows with central mullions and applied Perpendicular tracery with foiled tracery above the transom. Main gates have scrollwork above the top rail and may be secondary. Pedestrian gates have roundel friezes; scrollwork above the top rail and cast-iron standards with sunk panels and rounded finials. Openings to left-hand (west) pavilion boarded up at time of survey. HISTORY: Ellis provides a brief history of the recreation ground. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.387-388).
Listing NGR: SX9070263429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 387-388
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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