Description

PAIGNTON

SX8960 ROUNDHAM ROAD
1947-1/6/79 (North side)
13/03/51 Cliff Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
ROUNDHAM ROAD
Old World Cottage, Holcombe Cottage,
Cliff Cottage)

GV II

Small house. Probably late C18. Plastered mass wall; thatched
roof with plain ridge, hipped at ends, right-end stack with
rendered shaft, rear left corner stack.
PLAN: L-plan, built adjacent to and above the harbour and
facing away from it. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide
with a central entrance, rear right unheated wing at
right-angles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-window front with c1930s enclosed porch
with hipped tiled roof and half-glazed front door. 2-light
small-pane timber casements.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest,
including an original roof.
HISTORY: Patterson identifies this cottage as the coastguard's
cottage noted in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his 'Panorama of
Torquay' (1831). Paintings and an 1890 photograph of Cliff
Cottage (Tully) show a single-storey outbuilding attached at
the left end.
(Painting at the Paignton Club: 1890-1920; Tully P: Peter
Tully's Pictures of Paignton: 1988-: 37).

Listing NGR: SX8924059032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503242

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)