Edinburgh Villas

EDINBURGH VILLAS, 1-4, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293293
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Edinburgh Villas
Statutory Address:
EDINBURGH VILLAS, 1-4, BRUNSWICK SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293293
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Edinburgh Villas
Statutory Address 1:
EDINBURGH VILLAS, 1-4, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EDINBURGH VILLAS, 1-4, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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 90848 64666

Details

TORQUAY

SX9064 BRUNSWICK SQUARE 885-1/13/55 (North West side) 10/01/75 Nos. 1-4 (consecutive) Edinburgh Villas

GV II

Originally a pair of double-fronted houses, now subdivided and partly in office use. c1830s. Plastered; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands. PLAN: Single-depth main range with a central carriageway through the range and rear service wings at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 7-window front with dentil eaves cornice, regular fenestration: doorways in bays 2 and 6. Octagonal conservatory conceals doorway in bay 2. Bay 6 has narrow doorway with modern door with overlight. French windows to ground floor have high transomed French windows with glazing bars: those to the left have dentil cornices, one to the right has Venetian shutters. 7 first-floor flush frame sashes, glazed with 12-pane sashes, 5 right-hand windows with Venetian shutters. 3 gabled dormers to left. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9084864666

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
390525
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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