Royal Torbay Yacht Club
ROYAL TORBAY YACHT CLUB, BEACON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280073
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Torbay Yacht Club
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL TORBAY YACHT CLUB, BEACON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280073
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Torbay Yacht Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL TORBAY YACHT CLUB, BEACON HILL
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:
- ROYAL TORBAY YACHT CLUB, BEACON HILL
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 91932 63155
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 BEACON HILL 885-1/17/33 (North East side) 10/01/75 Royal Torbay Yacht Club (Formerly Listed as: BEACON TERRACE Royal Torbay Yacht Club)
GV II
Club house, probably originally house. c1840s; C20 alterations. Plastered; hipped slate roof with lead rolls; stacks with rendered shafts. PLAN: Main block with central entrance into a passage, stair rises to rear. Probably secondary block, slightly set back, to the right (uphill). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The left-hand block originally had a symmetrical 3-bay front. Moulded cornice below parapet. Centre bay broken forward with paired giant Doric pilasters to left and right supporting an entablature. Central doorway with pediment on consoles. Recessed 2-leaf 6-panel studded door with overlight. First-floor centre tripartite sash with C20 glazing. Secondary door to left with cornice. The left-hand bay has ground and first floor tripartite sashes: the ground floor with elaborate moulded brackets supporting a balustrded balcony to the first-floor window, which has richly-moulded consoles supporting a cornice. The right-hand bay has been altered and extended. Plain tripartite ground-floor sash flanked by pilasters, doorway alongside with paired pilasters. Large first-floor canted oriel on brackets with consoles and a cornice, glazed with C20 plate glass high transomed windows: C20 window to right. The right-hand block is slightly set back and partly concealed by a C20 single-storey addition. Projecting cornice and parapet; 2 shallow projecting stacks, with dentil-moulded shafts, projecting through the roof. 2 tall round-headed ground floor windows visible with pilasters, moulded arches and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Partially inspected. Entrance passage has original cornice; stair with turned balusters. HISTORY: Ellis includes an illustration of the building when the facade of the left-hand block was complete, after the building was opened in 1893 as the Torquay or Torbay Club. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.355).
Listing NGR: SX9193263155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 355
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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