Cary Castle
CARY CASTLE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293194
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cary Castle
- Statutory Address:
- CARY CASTLE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293194
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cary Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARY CASTLE, CHURCH 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:
- CARY CASTLE, CHURCH 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 91604 65951
Details
TORQUAY
SX9165 CHURCH ROAD, St Marychurch 885-1/11/427 (West side) 10/01/75 Cary Castle
II
Large villa, used for holiday flats. Late 1840s/early 1850s with late C20 additions. Plastered; roof concealed behind parapets; stacks with rendered shafts with embattled, corbelled caps, some with octagonal shafts. Picturesque Gothic style. PLAN: Double-depth plan, the original block north-facing with east service wings that have been developed and extended. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4-stage entrance tower. Embattled parapets; angle buttresses with battered set-offs and gabled finials. High-transomed, moulded, mullioned casement windows, those on the front elevation with hoodmoulds with carved label stops. 3-bay entrance front, the projecting tower in the centre with buttresses to the lower 2 stages and pilaster strips above. Moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway with Gothick panelled door with fanlight. Upper stages of tower decorated with blind traceried friezes between the pilaster strips. Embattled parapet with corbel table and embattled pinnacles. To right, a shallow projecting stack with embattled cap. 2 windows to left, 3 to tower. Other original elevations in a similar style with 2- and 3-light windows and embattled parapets, some rising in the centre. INTERIOR: Not seen in detail but noted as having original plasterwork, joinery and original stair.
Listing NGR: SX9160465951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390547
- 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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