Singleton
SINGLETON, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280058
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Singleton
- Statutory Address:
- SINGLETON, HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06362/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280058
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Singleton
- Statutory Address 1:
- SINGLETON, 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:
- SINGLETON, 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 92579 63311
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/120 (East side) 10/01/75 Singleton
GV II
Villa, unoccupied at time of survey. Said to be 1836 (previos List description). Plastered; hipped slate roof; stacks with plastered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular main block with entrance on west side and service block to north. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves on shaped paired brackets; platband. One-window entrance front, slightly broken forward and gabled in the centre with shallow projecting stacks to left and right. Projecting flat-roofed open porch with segmental-headed central arch flanked by narrow round-headed arches, all with keyblocks and capitals; deep projecting cornice below parapet. Round-headed recessed first-floor window, glazed with a small-pane sash with radial glazing bars and shaped Venetian shutters. Panelled front door with overlight with lozenge glazing bars. Verandah to right on chamfered posts has fretted fascia and returns across the 3-bay right return. This has 12-pane first-floor sashes with Venetian shutters. Ground-floor French windows reglazed and shutters missing at time of survey. Conservatory to south-east end. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to retain features of interest. Similar in style to Mintons (qv) on the opposite side of the road. Preserves its C19 garden plot. External detail well-preserved, interior said to be undivided, rare in a Torquay villa of this size.
Listing NGR: SX9257963311
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390647
- 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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