25 Palace Avenue
25, PALACE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293312
- Date first listed:
- 25-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:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 25 Palace Avenue
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, PALACE AVENUE
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383841
- 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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