Clifton Terrace

CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, BRADDONS HILL ROAD EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280066
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Clifton Terrace
Statutory Address:
CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, BRADDONS HILL ROAD EAST
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280066
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Clifton Terrace
Statutory Address 1:
CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, BRADDONS HILL ROAD EAST
Statutory Address 2:
CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, MADREPORE ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, BRADDONS HILL ROAD EAST
Statutory Address:
CLIFTON TERRACE, 1-7, MADREPORE 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 91796 63932

Details

TORQUAY

SX9163 MADREPORE ROAD 885-1/17/79 (East side) 10/01/75 Nos. 1-7 (consecutive) Clifton Terrace

GV II

Terrace of 7 villas. Begun 1853 (Ellis, p.317). Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roofs, hipped at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. Classical style. PLAN: West-facing row. Each villa double-depth on plan, each with a doorway to the left, except No.7, which is entered on the left (north) return. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Each villa 3 bays. Terrace arranged with 3 similar houses in the centre, flanked by a matching pair, end houses differ. Plinth; sunk panels below ground floor windows; first and second floor platbands; deep boxed eaves. Nos 3 to 5 are divided by pilaster strips, Nos.2 and 6 are gabled to the front with deep verges on moulded brackets. All ground-floor openings segmental-headed. Front doors to the left with overlights, windows originlly 12-pane sashes, mostly reglazed as 2-pane sashes. One first-floor window to each villa, all formerly with cast-iron balconies on brackets. Nos 1, 2 and 3 have segmental-headed cornices on plain brackets. Some windows glazed with original tripartite sashes; 12-pane in the centre, 4-pane in the outer lights. Second-floor windows originally glazed with 12-pane sashes (Nos 7 and 6), mostly glazed as 2-pane timber sashes, plastic replacements in No.7. Nos 2 and 6 have round-headed second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. No.1 has a 2-storey pedimented entrance block on the left return. The door in a segmental-headed recess, the first-floor window round-headed, glazed with a 12-pane sash in a round-headed recess. Semicircular second-floor window in recess has Y tracery. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.317).

Listing NGR: SX9179663932

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Sources

Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 317

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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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