Rock House
ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280041
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280041
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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:
- ROCK HOUSE, ROCK HOUSE LANE
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 92339 67966
Details
TORQUAY
SX96NW ROCK HOUSE LANE, Maidencombe 885-1/2/416 (South side) 10/01/75 Rock House
GV II
Large villa. c1850s with Edwardian alterations. Cement-rendered and blocked out; slate roof behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Long rectangular plan, main elevation faces east, service wing, probably later than main block, adjoins at north end, entrance on west side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical, irregular 4-bay east front with an embattled parpapet with coped embrasures and merlons and 3 projecting bays, the 2 left-hand bays with 2-tier canted bay windows. Moulded string at first-floor sill level and moulded cornice below parapet. Windows with dripmoulds glazed mostly with high-transomed casements with glazing bars, some small-pane sashes. Rear elevation similar in style, most windows here small-pane sashes. Probably Edwardian projecting embattled porch with a Tudor-arched doorway. INTERIOR: Plaster cornices, and joinery from the C19 and early C20 survives. Interesting early C20 patterned white glass on ground floor.
Listing NGR: SX9233967966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390770
- 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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