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25 PALACE AVENUE

25, PALACE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293312
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: 25 PALACE AVENUE
Statutory Address:: 25, PALACE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293312
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: 25 PALACE AVENUE
Statutory Address 1:: 25, PALACE AVENUE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 25, PALACE AVENUE

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:: SX8865760715

Details

PAIGNTON

SX8860 1947-1/5/68 PALACE AVENUE (North side) No.25

GV II

Post office, now in use as shops, offices and music school. 1888 by GS Bridgman, who designed Palace Avenue.

MATERIALS: Snecked local red breccia with some facing in Bathstone ashlar; red Devon sandstone, Ham Hill and grey polished granite dressings; hipped slate roof with crested ridge tiles; stacks with red brick shafts with bracketed cornices and shaped flue dividers.

PLAN: On a corner site between Palace Avenue and Coverdale Road with a rounded corner. Double-depth plan with former post office in a single-storey block at the front onto Palace Avenue and offices in a 3-storey block behind.

EXTERIOR: Free Baroque style. 3 storeys and single-storey. 2-bay front. The single-storey projection is divided into 4 bays by granite Corinthian pilsters supporting a dentil frieze below a cornice and balustraded parapet. Each bay has a round-headed pilastered window with a moulded arch, carved keyblock and recessed apron with carved roundel. Windows with high-transomed fixed glazing. Canted entrance bay to the right has corner pilasters and a pediment with a shield with mantling.

The 3-storey block behind has cream stone quoins and the 2nd floor is faced with cream stone ashlar with a foliated guilloche frieze below a dentil cornice. Moulded string at 2nd-floor sill level with a stone band below decorated with a Greek key frieze. 2 first-floor canted bay windows with shouldered stone architraves, a fine dentil frieze below the cornice and balustraded parpapets. Three 2nd-floor windows, glazed with 2-pane sashes. The 3-bay right return has one bay of the single-storey projection to match the others. Main block has rusticated pilasters to the ground floor and rusticated quoins to the first. Moulded cornices at first and second-floor level, the 2nd-floor cornice above a Greek key frieze. Ground floor has 2-pane sash to the left in a moulded frame flanked by pilasters with a cornice and sill blocks, pediment to window above first-floor cornice. 2-light casement alongside to right has a moulded stone architrave, sill blocks and cornice; right-hand tripartite window with a pilastered architrave. 2 first-floor 2-pane sashes with moulded architraves and segmental-headed pediments on consoles. The 2nd floor has 2-pane sashes alternating with fielded stone panels. The rear elevation is also richly-detailed. C20 rear right brick stair addition.

INTERIOR: Post office section preserves plaster cornices, although there has been some alteration by partitions. Other features of interest may survive elsewhere. A prominent and architecturally rich contribution to the Palace Avenue development.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1st April 2016.

Listing NGR: SX8865760715

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 383841
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.