HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410

HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, BABBACOMBE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280069
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410
Statutory Address:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, BABBACOMBE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280069
Date first listed:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410
Statutory Address 1:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, BABBACOMBE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, ILSHAM ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, BABBACOMBE ROAD
Statutory Address:: HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT SX 9312 6410, ILSHAM 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 93120 64100

Details

TORQUAY

SX9364 BABBACOMBE ROAD 885-1/15/23 (East side) Horse trough and drinking fountain at SX 9312 6410

GV II

Horse trough and drinking fountain. c1900. Signed Jenkins. Freestone and bronze. Large ogee-moulded rectangular trough, which breaks forward in the centre. Above the trough, a tall freestone tablet with bronze torches to left and right and a swan-necked pediment, tablet flanked by massive scrolled brackets with a cartouche containing an inscription with mosiac work below. Drinking fountain projects from front of tablet and is made up of 2 serpentine bronze dolphins with a fish-head spout. Inscription records erection to the memory of John Snelgrove, of St Elmo. A grand urban example of this type of street furniture.

Listing NGR: SX9312064100

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.