Description

TORQUAY

SX9164 SCARBOROUGH ROAD
885-1/14/87 (South West side)
No.1
Mulberry House

GV II

House. Late 1860s. Rendered; hipped slate roof; stacks with
rendered shafts with platbands and cornices.
PLAN: Deep rectangular plan, on a corner site. Entrance on
north-west side into passage containing stair, principal rooms
to front (south-west) facing onto Scarborough Road, services
to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets.
3-window entrance front, symmetrical to the right plus a
canted bay on the corner at the left. Central front door, the
doorcase with rounded corners, pilasters and a cornice on
modillion brackets; 4-panel door with plain overlight. 3 first
and 2 ground-floor windows with moulded architraves and sills,
the ground-floor windows with keyholes, all glazed with
probably original 2 over 2-pane sashes with horizontal glazing
bars. Rusticated quoins to left of front, beyond that a
2-storey canted corner bay with triple windows, ground-floor
centre window converted to 2-leaf door with overlight; moulded
cornice with modillion brackets over. Similar bay to left
(facing Scarborough Road) with rusticated quoins to left and
right.
INTERIOR: Original chimneypieces and joinery; stair with
turned balusters.
Important corner site between the listed terrace in
Scarborough Road and coeval listed buildings in Croft Street.

Listing NGR: SX9101364216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569222

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014