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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Overview
- 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
- Reference:
- IOE01/06364/12
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive
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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 1:
- WALLS, STEPS AND SPHINXES TO GARDEN SOUTH OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 839-840
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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