Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant
YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, BABBACOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292165
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, BABBACOMBE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-04-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/06362/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292165
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, BABBACOMBE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, 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:
- YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, BABBACOMBE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- YUM SING CANTONESE RESTAURANT, 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 92730 63873
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/196 (South side) 10/01/75 Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: OLD TORWOOD ROAD Exbury)
GV II
Villa. c1840s. Plastered; hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Main block square on plan, with a south garden front onto the Babbacombe Road; entrance on west side; pair of rear service wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay garden front with deep eaves on paired brackets; first-floor sill band; platband; ground floor left and right pilaster strips; stuccoed quoins to first floor. 3 ground-floor 6 over 9-pane sashes with moulded architraves and fascias for sunblinds. 3 first-floor 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves and sunblind fascias. The right return has a single-storey flat-roofed bay with a tripartite window. The left return is 3-bays, the bays divided by the chimneystacks which have shafts projecting through the eaves. Unfortunate modern glazed verandah across ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SX9273063873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390736
- 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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