2, St Marychurch Road

TORQUAY

SX9164 ST MARYCHURCH ROAD 885-1/14/234 (West side) 10/01/75 No.2 (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY CHURCH ROAD Hotel Adyar)

GV II

Villa. Late 1840s/1850s. Pebbledashed; natural slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with very tall chimney pots. PLAN: Large rectangular double-depth plan, 2 rooms wide, extended at the rear in a matching style and now linked to the Upton Vale Baptist Church (not included). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Tudor style windows with Dutch gables; chamfered string. Asymmetrical 3-bay 2-window entrance elevation, facing St Marychurch Road, front with 3 Dutch gables, the centre bay slightly broken forward. Central chamfered doorway with a stepped dripmould. First-floor window above with a dripmould and chamfered frame is glazed with a 2-light high-transomed casement with moulded mullions; 3-light second floor window with C20 glazing. The right-hand bay has 3 windows with C20 glazing. Left-hand bay blind with a shallow projecting stack. The left return also has 3 Dutch gables with a corbelled stack in the centre flanked by one-light attic windows with dripmoulds. Ground floor has left and right canted bays of the c1860s, glazed with 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars; blind recess to the centre. First-floor windows with dripmoulds are glazed with high-transomed casements with moulded mullions. The Lymington Road elevation has evidently been extended to the left, although the chamfered second floor string and parapet with cornice have been extended across. The windows in the original block are 2- and 3-light high transomed casements with moulded mullions and chamfered frames. Ground floor windows are glazed with C20 small-pane casements. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9142364371