Description

TORQUAY

SX9264SW LOWER WARBERRY ROAD
885-1/20/132 (North side)
07/12/73 Bishop's Court Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER WARBERRY ROAD
Normount)

GV II

Shown as Normount on OS map.
Large detached villa, in use as hotel. 1844. Plastered; slate
roof; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting moulded
cornices. Neo-classical style.
PLAN: Main block rectangular. Entrance on west side into
corridor from which stair rises to north; north-east service
wing. Extensive additions, mostly detached, associated with
hotel use.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 1:3-bay west front, the 3 bays
symmetrical, the left-hand bay probably an addition.
Rusticated quoins; moulded cornice below blocking course;
moulded string at first floor level. Centre bay of the 3
broken forward under a parapet with rusticated quoins. Good,
large Doric porch with a distyle columns in antis, triglyphs
and guttae. 2-leaf panelled door below segmental-headed
fanlight with spider's web glazing bars. 3 first-floor windows
with moulded architraves, glazed with secondary 2-pane sashes
except the right-hand window, which is blind with Venetian
shutters. Ground-floor windows with moulded architraves,
pediments on consoles and sill blocks, glazed with secondary
2-pane sashes; right-hand window blind.
The left-hand bay of the front projects and has windows to
match. The right return (garden elevation) is 5 bays, the
centre 3 under a pediment, with the ground floor projecting,
with a balustraded parapet and 3 high-transomed French windows
divided by Ionic pilasters with paired pilasters to left and
right. First-floor centre French windows onto balcony. Outer
bays have windows to match west front. East front has pediment
over centre of 3 bays with ground floor built out as loggia,
now glazed in, with balustraded parapet.
INTERIOR: Retains plaster cornices; chimneypieces including
classical white marble with coloured marble panels; stair with
turned balusters and ramped mahogany handrail and 2-panel
mahogany doors.
The large terraced garden has been altered for hotel use.

Listing NGR: SX9235264008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504942

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)