Clifton Grove
CLIFTON GROVE, 1-10, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292150
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Grove
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON GROVE, 1-10, OLD TORWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292150
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFTON GROVE, 1-10, OLD TORWOOD 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:
- CLIFTON GROVE, 1-10, OLD TORWOOD 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 92576 63786
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/78 Nos. 1-10 (consecutive) Clifton Grove
GV II
Terrace of 10 houses. c1870s. Plastered; gabled slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth plan houses, one room wide, arranged in pairs, with front doors towards the centre of each pair. EXTERIOR: 3-storey and basement. Enriched stucco detail. Deep eaves; eaves level junction marked by an elaborate corbelled bracket with sill blocks. Each house has a 2-window front: one ground floor, one first floor and 2 attic windows. Projecting porch with square section piers with plinths, capitals and shallow pediment. 4-panel front door with fielded panels and plain overlight; tiled porch floor. Ground-floor window a tripartite sash with a floating cornice on consoles, glazed with 4-pane sashes. First-floor window with sillblocks and a floating cornice on brackets, glazed with a 4-pane sash. 2 gabled attic dormers with moulded architaves, pedimented gables and sill blocks, glazed with a 4-pane sash. Original cast-iron rainwater goods with downpipes dividing around the eaves brackets and discharging into richly-moulded hoppers. Rear elevations preserve their cement render and are also richly-detailed in the same style, with original windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but known to retain stairs with turned balusters and other features of interest are likely to survive. A prominent terrace set high above the Babbacombe Road.
Listing NGR: SX9257663786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390730
- 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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