Mulberry House

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