Grey House

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/197 (North side) Grey House

GV II

Villa, divided into flats. c1850s. Cement-rendered; hipped slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands and projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide. South garden front; entrance on west side with access from a lane shared with Cambridge Lodge (qv); rear service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front. Deep eaves on brackets; eaves band; sill band. Left and right pilaster strips to ground floor; stuccoed, rusticated quoins to first floor. Projecting porch in centre bay with a round-headed doorway with a moulded architrave and moulded string at the springing of the arch. The porch has a deeply projecting moulded cornice below a parapet. To right of the porch a shallow projecting stack, shaft projecting through eaves. Ground-floor window left and first-floor windows left and centre have moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane sashes (centre window lower sash replaced with 1-pane). Plainer 3-window lower roofed service wing to left with sash windows. 2-window garden elevation in the same style with a canted bay window to ground-floor right with moulded architraves, cornice and parapet. Louvred shutters to first-floor windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. Complete externally and an attractive pair with Cambridge Lodge (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9272163947