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Listed building outline: Clifton Terrace 390681

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Clifton Terrace 390681

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.525947 50.465546,-3.526061 50.465532,-3.525999...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1280066
• name: Clifton Terrace
• notes: Terrace of 7 villas. Begun 1853 (Ellis, p.317). Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roofs, hipped at ends; stacks with rendered shafts. Classical style. PLAN: West-facing row. Each villa double-depth on plan, each with a doorway to the left, except No.7, which is entered on the left (north) return. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Each villa 3 bays. Terrace arranged with 3 similar houses in the centre, flanked by a matching pair, end houses differ. Plinth; sunk panels below ground floor windows; first and second floor platbands; deep boxed eaves. Nos 3 to 5 are divided by pilaster strips, Nos.2 and 6 are gabled to the front with deep verges on moulded brackets. All ground-floor openings segmental-headed. Front doors to the left with overlights, windows originlly 12-pane sashes, mostly reglazed as 2-pane sashes. One first-floor window to each villa, all formerly with cast-iron balconies on brackets. Nos 1, 2 and 3 have segmental-headed cornices on plain brackets. Some windows glazed with original tripartite sashes; 12-pane in the centre, 4-pane in the outer lights. Second-floor windows originally glazed with 12-pane sashes (Nos 7 and 6), mostly glazed as 2-pane timber sashes, plastic replacements in No.7. Nos 2 and 6 have round-headed second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. No.1 has a 2-storey pedimented entrance block on the left return. The door in a segmental-headed recess, the first-floor window round-headed, glazed with a 12-pane sash in a round-headed recess. Semicircular second-floor window in recess has Y tracery. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.317). Listing NGR: SX9179663932
• reference: 390681
• start-date: 1975-01-10