9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court

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SX9163 885-1/17/36

TORQUAY BEACON HILL (North East side) No.9 Beacon Terrace, Royal Marina Court

(Formerly Listed as: BEACON TERRACE Beach Spa Hotel and Oyster Shell Cafe)

20/11/52

GV II Pair of terraced houses, undergoing conversion to flats at time of survey. c1830s by Jacob Harvey. Plastered; slate mansard roof; stacks with rendered shafts and platbands.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and attic 3:3-window front with front doors to left. Platbands below second-floor sill. Deep projecting eaves cornice with blocking course. Description only approximate as some detail concealed or not in situ during conversion. Right-hand house has square-headed doorway, two ground floor windows probably twelve-pane sashes. six over nine-pane first floor sashes (balconies in situ), twelve-pane second floor sashes; C20 small pane sashes in mansard roof. The left-hand house is similar but has a good corner bay. Round-headed doorway of the Southernhay, Exeter type with a reeded moulding, vermiculated rustication and a key block with a carved or cast head. Greek key moulding across doorway and below fanlight which is a particularly pretty design in lead with a central roundel with star motifs. C20 two-leaf small-pane door. First floor six over nine-pane sash with a C20 balcony; twelve-pane second floor sash.

INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest

HISTORY: Part of the same terrace as Nos 2-8 Beacon Hill, (qv). Ellis reproduces an 1839 drawing of the terrace before alterations.

Listing NGR: SX9189563172