St Martins
ST MARTINS, TORRS PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292848
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARTINS, TORRS PARK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292848
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARTINS, TORRS PARK
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:
- ST MARTINS, TORRS PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51093 47335
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 TORRS PARK 853-1/6/133 (North side) St Martins
GV II
Detached house. Dated 1880 on plaque over entrance. By WM Robbins of Ilfracombe. Gothic style. MATERIALS: red brick with dressings of yellow and black brick; details in stone, red terracotta and wood. Tarred, slated roof with crested ridge tiles. Red and yellow brick chimney to right of ridge. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garret. 3-window front. Projecting entrance porch in centre, the brickwork at either side carried up to form a pair of large gables. Porch has doorway with pointed arch, its head flanked by bands of red and black brick; half glazed double doors with coloured glass in fanlight. Above the porch a wooden semi-octagonal bay window with base of enriched terracotta panels and pointed roof. Outer windows set in tall, pointed arched yellow brick recesses rising into the gables, which have traceried bargeboards. At either side of the porch in ground storey a glazed conservatory surmounted by a balustraded wooden balcony. In the side walls square wooden bay windows with half-timbered panels. INTERIOR partially inspected, with original cornices, enriched doorframes and original stair. This is one of the best houses in Torrs Park. It is listed (without an occupant) in the census return for April 1881. A house seen to be shown on this site in a block plan of about 1879-80 in Board of Health File. (Ilfracombe Chronicle, 23.7.1937: Hussell AT: 8; Census Return Public Record Office on microfilm: West Country Studies Lib.: 1881-; Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning File 5A on microfilm: North Devon District Council Planning Department).
Listing NGR: SS5109347335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 23 July, (1937), 8
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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