WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION

WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298260
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION
Statutory Address:: WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298260
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY 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 88776 61504

Details

PAIGNTON

SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/105 (West side) Walls, steps and sphinxes to garden south of Oldway Mansion

GV II

Walls to garden S of Oldway Mansion, including flights of steps and sphinxes. c1907-1907, contemporary with the remodelling of Oldway Mansion (qv) for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A Duchesne, the leading French formal landscape architect. Concrete walls; paved terrace; white Italian marble sphinxes. Plain, low, coped concrete wall to paved terrace immediately in front of the house, with flights of steps up from the south garden. Central flight of steps is flanked by fine C18 style sphinxes, described in Pevsner as "delightfully haughty", with elaborate hairstyles, earrings and fichus. Low, coped concrete walls to W and E of the garden return at the N end with a flight of steps up to the lawn. Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion, the sphinxes setting off the erotic scuplture in the pediment of the south front. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).

Listing NGR: SX8877661504

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Legacy System number:: 383877
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 839-840

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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.