Torbay Council

Listed building outline: 1-29, PRINCES ROAD 390758

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1-29, PRINCES ROAD 390758

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.526478 50.469395,-3.526472 50.469392,-3.526716...
• entry-date: 1994-05-02
• listed-building: 1280037
• name: 1-29, PRINCES ROAD
• notes: Terrace of 15 houses for workers. Probably 1860s, designed by JW Rowell as part of the development around Ellacombe Green, presented to the town in 1859 by Sir Lawrence Palk. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with brick dressings; slate roofs; stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: Terrace overlooking Ellacombe Green. Houses slightly smaller than those up Ellacombe Road (qv). One room on plan, each house with a small unheated rear service wing at right-angles with a narrow yard alongside. Houses identical except for larger ones at either end and No.15 in the centre, which has a different design. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. One-window front to each house with a gabled dormer. Front door to right in a crank-arched doorway. The original doors (some replaced) are vertically boarded with a triangular light cut out of the top. Ground-floor window with crank-arched voussoirs, glazed with a 3-light high-transomed casement. Similarly-glazed 2-light first floor window with crank-arched voussoirs. No.1, to the right, consists of 2 blocks with a standard front to the right but with the front door to the left and, to the left, a projecting one-window wing with a half-hipped roof to the front and matching windows. No.29 the same but mirror plan. No.15, in the centre, is gabled to the front; front door to the right; first-floor window with a pointed-arched tympanum with polychromatic detail. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Part of an exceptionally well-planned and designed group of mid C19 workers' housing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.862). Listing NGR: SX9175664377
• reference: 390758
• start-date: 1994-05-02