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Latitude: 50.4611 / 50°27'39"N
Longitude: -3.5227 / 3°31'21"W
OS Eastings: 292014
OS Northings: 63471
OS Grid: SX920634
Mapcode National: GBR QX.3DJH
Mapcode Global: FRA 37HT.ZCJ
Plus Code: 9C2RFF6G+CW
Entry Name: Victorian Shopping Arcade
Listing Date: 23 May 1973
Last Amended: 3 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280016
English Heritage Legacy ID: 390851
Also known as: Scala, Torquay
Scala
ID on this website: 101280016
Location: Torbay, Devon, TQ1
County: Torbay
Electoral Ward/Division: Wellswood
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Torquay
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Torquay St Matthias
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Shopping centre Music venue
TORQUAY
SX9263 TORWOOD STREET
885-1/18/283 (South side)
23/05/73 Nos.3-21 (Odd)
Victorian Shopping Arcade
(Formerly Listed as:
TORWOOD STREET
Compass Club and Torquay Motors)
GV II
Designed as a theatre but never completed; in use as shopping
precinct. 1909-15. To designs of PR Wood. Bathstone ashlar;
roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with stone shafts with
moulded cornices. Neo-Baroque style.
PLAN: On a corner site, long side to Torwood Street, entrance
on return, facing up Torwood Street. Interior gutted for
shops.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Grand symmetrical 1:5:1-bay elevation to
Torwood Street. Ground-floor bays divided by rusticated piers
with fascia and projecting cornice on brackets. Centre 5 bays
broken forward and divided, above ground floor, by giant
engaged Ionic columns with an entablature and dentil cornice
below the parapet. Large windows with moulded architraves and
overlights glazed with small panes. Recessed outer bays with
rusticated quoins. Round-headed windows have eared
architraves, moulded keystones and sill brackets; panels below
carved with names of Irving and Garrick. Statue groups of Fame
and Justice over outer bays. The entrance elevation on the
left return is 1:3:1 bays, the centre 3 bays, canted,
pedimented and broken forward on Doric columns, upper storey
divided by Ionic pilasters, relief of Neptune in pediment.
INTERIOR: Modernised.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Cherry B: Devon: London:
1952-1989: P.856).
Listing NGR: SX9201463471
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