Courtyard Arch And Screen Walls At West End Of Oldway Mansion Courtyard is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. Arch, walls.
Courtyard Arch And Screen Walls At West End Of Oldway Mansion Courtyard
- WRENN ID
- second-corridor-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Arch, walls
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PAIGNTON
SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/109 (West side) 13/03/51 Courtyard arch and screen walls at west end of Oldway Mansion courtyard (Formerly Listed as: TORQUAY ROAD Courtyard Arch to Oldway)
GV II
Triumphal arch with screen walls at the W end of the courtyard to Oldway Mansion (qv). 1904-1907, contemporary with the remodelling of the house for Paris Singer. Stuccoed, possibly over concrete. Massive round-headed, pilastered, moulded archway with a deep projecting cornice and triglyph frieze with patterae. A carved or moulded lion's mask with lionskin swags droops down over the archway. Arch flanked by pilasters with chanelled rustication. Tall screen walls with balustraded parapets are decorated with plain rectangular panels on the courtyard side with additional oculi with plain, proud frames on the W side. A spectacular entrance to a theatrical house. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).
Listing NGR: SX8875061568
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