Mintons Woods Way
MINTONS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280057
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Mintons Woods Way
- Statutory Address:
- MINTONS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280057
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Mintons Woods Way
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINTONS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WOODS WAY, HIGHER WOODFIELD 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:
- MINTONS, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WOODS WAY, HIGHER WOODFIELD 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 92531 63369
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/118 (West side) 10/01/75 Mintons and Woods Way (Formerly Listed as: HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD Iona)
GV II
Villa, subdivided. Probably 1835 (Pevsner). Plastered; hipped slate roofs; stacks with deep projecting cornices and some orignal octagonal pots. PLAN: Rectangular double-depth main block with entrance on the south side and north-east service wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves and verges on moulded brackets; eaves and verges band; first-floor platband. 3-bay front, broken forward and gabled in the centre. Flat-roofed projecting porch in centre with pilaster strips, platband and plain proud architraves to openings. Round-headed doorway with recessed 4-panel front door with timber panelling in arch above. Door flanked by round-headed sash windows. First-floor centre window recessed and glazed with small-pane sash with radial glazing bars. Ground-floor window right a 12-pane sash; first- floor window with Venetian shutters. 3-bay garden elevation with canted bay windows to ground foor and tent-roof verandah on posts with floor of octagonal tiles, which returns for 2 bays along the entrance front. INTERIOR: Not inspected but noted in Pevsner as having fine plaster ceilings and interesting wall and floor tiling added after the building was bought by Herbert Minton, the tile-maker, in 1856, including wall tiles to a design by Pugin. HISTORY: Similar in detail to Singlton (qv) on the opposite side of the road. Shown on 1866 OS map as 'Belmont'. An unspoiled example of one of the earlier Torquay villas. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.860).
Listing NGR: SX9253163369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390645
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 860
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 860
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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