Russell Court
RUSSELL COURT, HIGHER ERITH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292923
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Russell Court
- Statutory Address:
- RUSSELL COURT, HIGHER ERITH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2003-05-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/10138/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292923
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Russell Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSSELL COURT, HIGHER ERITH 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:
- RUSSELL COURT, HIGHER ERITH 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 92776 63662
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 HIGHER ERITH ROAD 885-1/18/107 (North West side) Russell Court
GV II
Villa, divided into flats. c1870s. Snecked local grey limestone with stucco dressings; tarred slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with panels and deeply projecting bracketed cornices. PLAN: Double-depth main block with an entrance on the south side and an east service wing at right-angles under an M roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay (2-window) front plus 3 windows to the service wing. Deep eaves, the main block on paired moulded brackets. Moulded string to main block: platband to service wing. Eaves band; clasping pilasters. All windows with stuccoed surrounds, mostly glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Centre bay of main block broken forward and separately roofed. Central projecting porch with a modillion cornice and blocking course. Round-headed, moulded, pilastered outer doorway with a half-glazed door and plain fanlight; pair of round-headed windows above. To left, a shallow projecting stack with round-headed panel and shaft projecting through eaves, single-storey C20 addition wraps round corner. Service wing has 3 first and 2 ground-floor windows. Left return of main block has canted ground floor window with modillion cornice and 2 tripartite first-floor windows, one round-headed under a gable. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may retain features of interest. Included as a relatively unaltered and typical late C19 Torquay villa, its detail and massing accentuated by the "honest" use of stonework in contrast to the stucco more typical of Torquay village.
Listing NGR: SX9277663662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390630
- 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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