1-7, KENTS ROAD
1-7, KENTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280061
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, KENTS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, KENTS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280061
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, KENTS ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, KENTS 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:
- 1-7, KENTS 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 93244 64046
Details
TORQUAY
SX9364 KENTS ROAD, Ilsham 885-1/15/408 (North side) Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)
GV II
Terrace of 7 houses. c1870s. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roofs, mostly with sprocketed eaves; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices or platbands. PLAN: Terrace with end houses of a slightly different design. Double-depth houses, mostly 2-rooms wide. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Each house in the terrace double-fronted, typically with a 3-window front with deep sprocketed eaves; first-floor platband; dividing pilaster strips, rusticated on the ground floor with sunk panels to the first floor and moulded brackets to the party walls. Pilastered, moulded, round-headed doorway with vermiculated keyblock; 4-panel door with plain fanlight. Outer windows on both floors are tripartite sashes with sill blocks, ground floor with floating cornices on brackets, second floor with moulded architraves and segmental heads. First floor centre window similar but not tripartite. 3 segmental-headed dormers with moulded cornices. All windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars except dormers which are 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. The end terrace houses are T-plan with a porch in the angle between main block and wing. 2-window elevation to Kents Road, broken forward and gabled to the right: ground and first-floor windows tripartite with floating cornices. No.6 is slightly different to the others in the terrace, the left-hand bay gabled to the front and slightly broken forward. INTERIOR: Not inspected by may retain features of interest. A fine example of an unspoiled stuccoed Torquay terrace of modestly-sized houses.
Listing NGR: SX9324464046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390654
- 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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