32 And 34, Warberry Road West

TORQUAY

SX9164 WARBERRY ROAD WEST 885-1/14/299 (East side) 10/01/75 Nos.32 AND 34

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Pair of houses, No.32 converted to flats. Late 1850s/early 1860s. Plastered; hipped asbestos slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands and cornices. PLAN: Mirror-plan pair, designed to have the appearance of a single building from a distance. Double-depth on plan, entered on the returns, each with a rear service wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement below the front first-floor terrace. Stuccoed quoins, rusticated to the first floor; eaves band. 2-window front with French windows on the ground floor and outer first-floor windows with moulded architraves and sill blocks. No.32 retains Venetian shutters. Round-headed niche to first-floor centre. No.32 has a set of replacement plastic windows. Unusually pretty and elaborate cast-iron verandah with a glazed lean-to roof, very complete to No.34, with barleysugar standards; elaborate brackets, pierced cast-iron fascia and cast-iron balustrade. No.34 has a pretty gabled glazed porch on the right return with Edwardian stained glass. The centre bay of this elevation breaks forward under a gable with a window with a round-headed moulded architrave with a keyblock. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9176964254