THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS

THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS, UNION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291642
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS, UNION STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291642
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-May-1994
List Entry Name:: THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS, UNION STREET

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:: THE KEEP, CASTLE CHAMBERS, UNION STREET

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 91170 64451

Details

TORQUAY

SX9164 UNION STREET 885-1/14/286 (North East side) 10/01/75 The Keep, Castle Chambers (Formerly Listed as: UPPER UNION STREET Castle Chambers)

GV II

Dispensary, in use as offices. Probably 1878. Snecked local grey limestone with Bathstone dressings; slate roof; stack with stone shafts with moulded cornices. PLAN: Small building attached to left end of the hospital. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Asymmetrical 2-window front, with a shallow wing projecting to the front at the left end with a coped gable with kneelers. Moulded stone eaves band to main block. Moulded-arched doorway to right of wing with carved spandrels. 3-light high-transomed stone-mullioned window to right of doorway. Wing has similar 4-light window with relieving arch. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. The dispensary was intended to give working people the opportunity of medical attendance on payment of a small subscription, replacing the previous scheme of free medical attention. By 1883 the dispensary was self-supporting with 2,580 contributing members. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.437-440.).

Listing NGR: SX9117064451

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Legacy System number:: 390867
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 437-440

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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.