Torquay Pavilion
TORQUAY PAVILION, TORBAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291553
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Torquay Pavilion
- Statutory Address:
- TORQUAY PAVILION, TORBAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291553
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Torquay Pavilion
- Statutory Address 1:
- TORQUAY PAVILION, TORBAY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- TORQUAY PAVILION, VAUGHAN 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:
- TORQUAY PAVILION, TORBAY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- TORQUAY PAVILION, VAUGHAN 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 91736 63453
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 VAUGHAN ROAD 885-1/17/275 (South side) 13/03/73 Torquay Pavilion
GV II
Pavilion. 1911 by HA Garrett, Borough Surveyor, based on 1897 designs by Edward Richards, architect to the Haldon estate; contractor RE Narracott of Stoke Gabriel. Conversion to shopping precinct 1986-7. Built on reclaimed land on a concrete raft reinforced with expanded steel frame with brick infill, clad externally with Doulton's patent carrera-ware with a cream and green glazed finish; copper roof; fine Art Nouveau ironwork. PLAN: On a north/south axis. Nave with barrel roof and clerestory windows, top-lit by a central dome. Flat-roofed flanking aisles and end blocks for roof promenades incorporate octagonal corner turrets with railings and domed roofs on cast-iron columns; central bow on west side overlooking Princess Gardens. Interior originally comprised hall with a stage, orchestra pit and balcony; tea garden on roof. EXTERIOR: Nave with pedimented, gabled ends with large Diocletian windows onto ashphalted roof terraces with balustrades; cast-iron steps with floral balustrades on east and west sides. Corner turrets with pretty railings and bell-shaped copper domes on cast-iron columns. North end entrance block with terrace over, flanked by turrets with pointed copper domes crowned with statues of Mercury. Statue of Britannia on nave dome. Segmental-headed doorway with glazed canopy on cast-iron brackets. Sides articulated with pilasters; round-headed windows, some arranged in pairs and triplets with Art Nouveau glass. East side repaired in the 1980s conversion following demolition of adjoining theatre. INTERIOR: Original plasterwork to barrel vault, arranged in panels. Borough arms over east entrance flanked by good figures of health and happiness. 1980s stair to mezzanine. An exuberant seaside building with an interesting construction and exceptional ironwork. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.382-386; Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.854).
Listing NGR: SX9173663453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 382-386
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 854
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 854
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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