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Listed building outline: Lisburne Crescent (Terrace) 390639

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Lisburne Crescent (Terrace) 390639

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.513582 50.463007,-3.513691 50.462957,-3.513567...
• entry-date: 1952-11-20
• listed-building: 1206783
• name: Lisburne Crescent (Terrace)
• notes: Terrace of 9 houses. 1853 (Ellis). Architect unknown to date. Plastered; roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices, some with old octagonal pots. Italianate style. PLAN: Concave terrace. Each house double-depth, one room wide, with piano nobile. Detached service blocks (separately listed as item 131) to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Regular 3-bay front to each house, front door to the right. Deep projecting eaves cornice above modillion frieze on richly-moulded paired brackets; parapet with balustrade of roundels and ovals interrupted by short piers, some with pineapple finials, at the party walls. Terrace alternates between types A and B. Type A breaks forward with rusticated pilasters to the ground floor; moulded string to first floor. Round-headed doorway to right with a rusticated surround; recessed 4-panel front door with plain fanlight. 2 ground-floor windows with rusticated surrounds, plain panels over lintels, 3 first-floor windows with moulded architraves and floating cornices on consoles, the centre cornice pedimented; sunk panels below sills; pilasters with sunk panels and lozenges of vermiculated rustication. 3 second-floor windows with sill blocks. Windows 12-pane sashes, except first floor, which are 8-pane. Type B, set back, is similar but the ground-floor windows have rusticated surrounds. First-floor windows have no consoles to the floating cornices. Several windows retain fascias for sun blinds. No.9, at the right end, is symmetrical with the doorway in a single-storey entrance block at the left end. This has a pedimented gable, left and right pineapple finials; round-headed doorway with a 4-panel door with a plain fanlight. INTERIOR: Not inspected but features of interest may survive. HISTORY: An important high-status Torquay terrace, built on Palk land and given a family name of Sir Lawrence Palk's second wife (Ellis). (Ellis Arthur C: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.276-277). Listing NGR: SX9267963641
• reference: 390639
• start-date: 1952-11-20