Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 TOR HILL ROAD
885-1/14/265 (South side)
01/01/75 No.2

GV II

House and shop. c1840s. Plastered; slate gabled roof; stacks
with rendered shafts with moulded cornices, one with multiple
chimney pots.
PLAN: Corner site between Tor Hill Road and Factory Row. Shop
with doorway on corner from Tor Hill Road, accommodation over.
Wing to rear, fronting Factory Row, with separate entrance.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Moulded projecting cornice
below parapet, flat-topped attic gable on left return to
Factory Row. Slightly recessed round corner. 3-window front to
Tor Hill Road (including corner). Platband, eaves band. Shop
doorway on corner with a half-glazed door with deep overlight
and glazed panels to either side. Paired shop window to right
divided by pilasters with sunk panels and moulded brackets
below the fascia. Right-hand window reduced in size, left-hand
window transomed. Fascia recessed over doorway and shop
windows and over plain window facing Factory Row, name of shop
in raised late C19/early C20 letters on fascia.
Left return of main block 3 bays divided by 4 pilasters with
capitals below the eaves band. Flat-topped gable above the
cornice with a 2-light attic casement flanked by chimney
shafts. Other windows 12-pane C19 sashes except ground-floor
right (already described), ground-floor centre and first-floor
right which are blind. Lower roofed block to the left, roof
gabled at left end; axial and left end stack has a 2-window
front. 6-panel door to the right, 3 ground-floor 8-pane C20
sashes; 2 first-floor sashes, the right-hand one probably with
original 3 over 6-pane glazing, the left-hand one a 2-pane
reglazed sash.
"Good C19 chemist's lamp with coloured bottle glass and
finialed cap" mentioned in 1975 list description is missing,
although the bracket survives over the shop doorway.
The Tor Hill Road elevation contains a blue tile road sign
with white letters. Similar design to sign on Factory Row
elevation which reads "To Abbey Road by Albert Steps".
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
An unusual survival of an early shop in the centre of town, on
a prominent corner site.

Listing NGR: SX9134364261

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513485

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  For the Record
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)