Description

TORQUAY

SX9263 LINCOMBE DRIVE
885-1/18/124 (South side)
10/01/75 Glen Andred

GV II

Villa, subdivided. c1850s. Shown as Kernock on 1866 OS map.
Stuccoed and blocked out; 2-span hipped slate roof; stacks
with rendered shafts and projecting cornices.
PLAN: Rectangular double-depth main block with entrance on
north side and service wings at right-angles on west side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets;
stuccoed rusticated quoins; eaves band. Asymmetrical 2-window
entrance front with a shallow projecting stack to left, the
shaft projecting through the eaves.
Central doorway with moulded architrave and pediment on
consoles. Half-glazed front door flanked by glazed panels with
wide overlight, all glazed with late C19 stained glass.
Ground-floor window right with moulded architrave and floating
cornice on consoles, glazed with high transomed window with
some stained glass.
Service wing set back to right has half-glazed front door with
stained glass and two 12-pane sashes.
Left return in similar style with basement railed off with
probably original railings. Garden (south) elevation with
2-tier canted bays to left and right have attractive tented
lead canopies with fretted fascias on wrought-iron brackets.
Windows mostly replaced with plate-glass sashes and sills of
centre first-floor windows dropped.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but internal shutters survive and
there may be other features of interest. The stained glass is
a particularly attractive feature of this villa. Shown as
Kernock on 1866 OS Map.
(1st edition 1866 OS: CXV1.10).

Listing NGR: SX9280463242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501989

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)