Cambridge Lodge

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/194 (North side) Cambridge Lodge

GV II

Villa. 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 east side with access from a lane shared with Grey House (qv); rear service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay entrance front. Deep eaves; 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. The porch has a deeply-projecting moulded cornice below a parapet. To left of the porch a shallow projecting stack, shaft projecting through eaves. Ground floor window right and first floor centre and right have moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane sashes. Plainer 3-bay lower-roofed service wing to the right with 12-pane sash window. 2-window garden elevation in the same style with a canted bay to ground-floor left with moulded architraves, cornices and parapets. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may contain features of interest. Very complete externally and an attractive pair with Grey House (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9269163930