Howden Court Hotel
HOWDEN COURT HOTEL, 28, CROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293050
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Howden Court Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- HOWDEN COURT HOTEL, 28, CROFT ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-09-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/08766/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293050
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Howden Court Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWDEN COURT HOTEL, 28, CROFT 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:
- HOWDEN COURT HOTEL, 28, CROFT 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 91248 64053
Details
TORQUAY
SX9164 CROFT ROAD 885-1/14/85 (South West side) 02/05/74 No.28 Howden Court Hotel
GV II
Large detached villa, now in use as hotel. c1865-75; C20 south-west addition. Stuccoed; hipped slate roof; stacks with stuccoed shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep L-plan. Principal rooms to south, entrance on east side; service wing to north, north-east belvedere in angle between main block and wing. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Chimney shafts with faceted panels with modillion cornices. Most windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. 2-bay entrance elevation plus 1-bay to the belvedere set back to the right. Projecting centre bay under pedimented gable with a wreath. Doric porch with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet to first floor balcony above. Round-headed first-floor window with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired Composite columns. Left-hand bay has outer pilaster, rusticated to the ground floor with a cornice with modillion brackets at first floor level and paired composite pilasters above. Bay has shallow projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and panelled decoration to the first floor. To the right a 3-storey belevedere in the same style, the second stage corbelled out on brackets, with triplet of round-headed second-floor windows having moulded architraves with keyblocks and balustraded balconies. Other elevations of the villa in the same style. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to contain original features. Very similar in layout and style to the Allerdale Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the west. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9124864053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390583
- 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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