Ambrook Little Ambrook Lower Ambrook
AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292002
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrook Little Ambrook Lower Ambrook
- Statutory Address:
- AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-06-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/05593/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292002
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrook Little Ambrook Lower Ambrook
- Statutory Address 1:
- AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- LITTLE AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- LOWER AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN 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:
- AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER AMBROOK, ROUSDOWN 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 90402 63831
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 ROUSDOWN ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/338 (East side) Ambrook, Little Ambrook and Lower Ambrook
GV II
Villa, subdivided into three. c1870s. Stuccoed with traces of blocking out; hipped slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts with deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular main block with entrance on the west side and north service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves on paired moulded brackets; corner pilasters; eaves band and verges band; moulded sill band; platband. Asymmetrical 3:2-window front (3 windows to the service wing). Centre of main block broken forward and gabled. All windows glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Round-headed doorway with a moulded architrave and vermiculated keyblock; 6-panel front door with plain overlight. Round-headed first-floor window with moulded and pilastered architrave with a keyblock. Right-hand bay has shallow projecting stack with scratch-moulded panels. Windows in left-hand bay have moulded architraves. Plainer 3-window service front to the left. Right return opens onto a balustraded terrace and has two 2-storey canted bays, gabled to the front. Centre first-floor windows round-headed with pilastered moulded architraves, others square-headed with moulded architraves. Rear elevation in a similar style with a gabled projection in the centre. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Paired with Torview (qv), to the south, and very prominent from the Exeter Road. An externally complete example of a conventionally-planned later C19 Torquay villa in an unspoiled suburb.
Listing NGR: SX9040263831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390777
- 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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