Description

PAIGNTON

SX8860 FISHER STREET
1947-1/5/36 (South West side)
Boundary walls, gate piers and gates
to Tower House School

GV II

Boundary walls, gates and gate piers. 1890, contemporary with
Tower House. Local grey limestone rubble walls, partly
rendered, with Flemish bond yellow brick above and
cast-concrete coping. The main entrance gates in Mabel Place
have rusticated rendered square section gate piers with large
oversailing cast-concrete caps crowned with truncated
pinnacles. 'Tower House' is written in mosaic under the
cornices of the piers. Pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates.
The entrance from Fisher Street has one pedestrian gate and
one vehicular gate. Rusticated square section piers with
yellow brick dressings and sandstone caps. Gates have
alternating square section and twisted verticals below the
middle rail and diagonal bracing above with central cast-iron
floral motif and wrought-iron arabesques. Included for group
value with Tower House School (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8862260300

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489695

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments