Howden Court Hotel

TORQUAY

SX9164 CROFT ROAD 885-1/14/85 (South West side) 02/05/74 No.28 Howden Court Hotel

GV II

Large detached villa, now in use as hotel. c1865-75; C20 south-west addition. Stuccoed; hipped slate roof; stacks with stuccoed shafts. Italianate style. PLAN: Deep L-plan. Principal rooms to south, entrance on east side; service wing to north, north-east belvedere in angle between main block and wing. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Deep eaves on modillion brackets with dentil course below. Chimney shafts with faceted panels with modillion cornices. Most windows glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. 2-bay entrance elevation plus 1-bay to the belvedere set back to the right. Projecting centre bay under pedimented gable with a wreath. Doric porch with paired columns, entablature and modillion cornice; balustraded parapet to first floor balcony above. Round-headed first-floor window with moulded architrave and keyblock, flanked by paired Composite columns. Left-hand bay has outer pilaster, rusticated to the ground floor with a cornice with modillion brackets at first floor level and paired composite pilasters above. Bay has shallow projecting stack with rusticated quoins to the ground floor and panelled decoration to the first floor. To the right a 3-storey belevedere in the same style, the second stage corbelled out on brackets, with triplet of round-headed second-floor windows having moulded architraves with keyblocks and balustraded balconies. Other elevations of the villa in the same style. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to contain original features. Very similar in layout and style to the Allerdale Hotel (qv), the neighbouring villa to the west. These are 2 of the grander late C19 Italianate villas in Torquay.

Listing NGR: SX9124864053