6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292993
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292993
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
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:
- 6, 7 AND 8, FLEET STREET
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 91798 63677
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 FLEET STREET 885-1/17/98 (East side) 10/01/75 Nos.6, 7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: FLEET STREET Devon and Exeter Savings Bank)
GV II
Bank. 1889. Built as the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank. Bathstone ashlar to the front; brick to the rear; slate roof with lead rolls; stack with stone shaft with moulded cornice. "Very festive classical" style (Pevsner). PLAN: On a corner site, the front obtusely angled with entrance to banking hall in canted corner bay. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 4:1:2-bay front. Rusticated pilasters to left and right; deeply projecting dentil cornice at second-floor level, more delicate eaves dentil cornice. Ground-floor bays divided by engaged Doric columns with entablature; first floor with Ionic columns, the capitals enriched with grape carving with balustraded parapets to the windows which have eared architraves and carved panels above the lintels. Second-floor windows divided by carved panels. Canted corner rusticated to ground and first floor; pediment with foliage carving and datestone. Grand entrance with fluted Doric columns supporting deep moulded brackets to a first-floor balcony with a balustrade pierced with roundels. First-floor window with a moulded architrave and decoratively carved cornice on brackets. Ground-floor windows C20; office door in right-hand bay in pilastered doorcase. First- and second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Banking hall with coffered ceiling with egg-and-dart moulding. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: P.857).
Listing NGR: SX9179863677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 857
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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