Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield
GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, ESPLANADE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298233
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, ESPLANADE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298233
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers, Gates and Garden Walls to Parkfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, ESPLANADE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM 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:
- GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, ESPLANADE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS, GATES AND GARDEN WALLS TO PARKFIELD, LOWER POLSHAM 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 89246 61184
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8861 LOWER POLSHAM ROAD 1947-1/4/58 (North side) Gate piers, gates and garden walls to Parkfield
GV II
Gate piers, gates and garden walls to Parkfield (qv). c1860s/1870s. Local grey limestone ashlar gate piers; cast- and wrought-iron gates; local red breccia walls. Coped garden wall extends down Lower Polsham Road; ashlar walls with pyramidal-capped piers flank wrought-iron gates with spear-headed finials. Wall returns to bound the garden S of the house, where Esplanade Road entrance has square section piers with moulded cornices and ball finials; pair of late C20 mild steel gates with C19 welded-on finials. HISTORY: The piers originally stood at the entrance to Torbay House, Paignton (demolished in 1877), which stood at the seaward end of Town Bank road.
Listing NGR: SX8924661184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383831
- 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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