The Old Well House Public House

PAIGNTON

SX8860 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/5/115 (West side) 10/01/75 Nos.3 AND 5 The Old Well House Public House (Formerly Listed as: TORQUAY ROAD The Black Horse Public House)

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Includes: Nos.3A AND 3B GERSTON PLACE. Public House. Late 1860s with C20 alterations. Plastered; roof concealed behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting bands. PLAN: Corner site between Torquay Road and Bishops Place with a projecting canted bay on the corner. Deep rectangular plan with access to accommodation over at rear from Gerston Place. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front to Torquay Road. Eaves band; platbands at first and second floor sill level. Central doorway with plain proud architrave, flanked by pairs of C20 three-light high-transomed windows with glazing bars. Round-headed recessed first-floor windows with plain proud architraves, glazed with sashes, the top lights with margin panes over 6-pane lower lights. Second-floor sashes are 3 over 6-pane. Canted corner bay is gabled with a tall, round-headed recess formed by the divided flues of a stack, with shaft crowning the gable. Glazing similar to front elevation. Bishops Place elevation plainer and partly blind with shallow projecting porch with chanelled, rusticated surround, keyblock and cornice. Door converted to window but retains pretty teardrop fanlight. HISTORY: Part of the same development as the adjacent terrace of shops (Nos 7-13 (odd)).

Listing NGR: SX8874360776