2-8 Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill
2-8, Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293347
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8 Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8, Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293347
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8 Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-8, Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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:
- 2-8, Beacon Terrace, Beacon Hill, Torquay
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 91891 63180
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 October 2022 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
SX9163
885-1/17/34
TORQUAY
BEACON HILL (North East side)
Nos. 2-8 (consecutive) Beacon Terrace
(Formerly Listed as: BEACON TERRACE Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))
20/11/52
GV
II*
Formerly known as: Nos.1-7 BEACON TERRACE.
Terrace of seven houses. 1833 by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate roofs; stacks with rendered shafts and plain bands; some old chimneypots.
PLAN: sited stepping up the hill and overlooking the harbour. Double-depth plans with front doors to the right.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and attic. Each house has a three-bay front. Alternating designs. Type A, Nos 2, 4, 6 and 8 with low parapets, platbands at second-floor sill level; cast-iron first-floor balconies, originally with tent roofs. Type B (3, 5 and 7) with similar platbands interrupted by giant pilasters with incised key decoration, incised capitals and plain entablature to the first and second floors. Round-headed doorways, originally similar to the Southernhay, Exeter type, with panelled reveals, moulded architraves with vermiculated rustication and key blocks with carved or cast heads (some doorways altered). Some retain very pretty lead fanlights with star motifs around central roundel. Ground floor windows originally twelve-pane sashes, mostly reglazed, some retaining sunblind fascias. First floor windows six over nine-pane sashes; second floor windows twelve-pane sashes; attic dormers. Cast-iron balconies (Nos 6 and 8 replaced) with anthemia and palmettes. No.2 has a flat-roofed addition to the left. Nos 3 and 4 have gas lamps attached.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
HISTORY: An 1839 view of Beacon Hill (Ellis, p.337) shows the terrace before alterations. A fine terrace of its date and a good example of the urbane designs of Jacob Harvey, who was responsible for the best early C19 housing in Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX9189163180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 337
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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