Allerdale Hotel
ALLERDALE HOTEL, 21, CROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280085
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Allerdale Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ALLERDALE HOTEL, 21, CROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280085
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Allerdale Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLERDALE HOTEL, 21, CROFT 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:
- ALLERDALE HOTEL, 21, CROFT 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 91123 64078
Details
TORQUAY
SX9164 CROFT ROAD 885-1/14/84 (South West side) 10/01/75 No.21 Allerdale Hotel
GV II
Large detached villa, now in use as a hotel. c1875-76. C20 rear (north) addition. Solid wall construction, stuccoed with some traces of blocking out; hipped slate roof; stacks with dismantled shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep, approximately rectangular plan, principal rooms to the front (south), service wing to the rear. Entrance on east side into large hall, stairs rise off to north. 3-storey belvedere to north-west. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Regular but asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front, the centre bay broken forward under a pedimented gable with a wreath. Outer angle rusticated pilasters have first-floor Composite pilasters with cornices on modillion brackets, entablature above with faceted panels and clustered composite pilasters above. Shallow projecting Doric porch in centre with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet above C19 half-glazed front door with etched glass and deep overlight. Round-headed window above with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired composite pilasters. Left-hand bay has projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and an incised panel to the first floor. Right-hand bay has one ground and one first floor window with proud architraves. All windows glazed with probably original 4-pane plate glass windows. Other elevations in the same style. Belvedere has a hipped roof with deep eaves, each corner with a panelled chimney shaft with bracketed cornice. 2nd-storey tower elevations have round-headed triplet windows with moulded architraves and keyblocks. INTERIOR: Original features include open-well stair with turned balusters; original deep relief plaster cornices and joinery. Very similar in layout and style to the Howden Court Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the east. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9112364078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390582
- 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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