Brimhill

This is a villa dating from the 1830s. It is plastered with a slate roof and rendered stacks. Only one elevation is visible in the survey, which displays a two-window entrance front with a sill band and eaves band. A projecting porch features a moulded string and a deep projecting cornice with ball finials. The doorway is round-headed, with a further round-headed inner doorway above a fanlight with glazing bars and a half-glazed door. A shallow projecting stack is located to the left of the doorway. The elevation has two first-floor and one ground-floor windows, which are 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves. A previous listing description (from 1975) noted a symmetrical three-window garden front with full-length sashes on the ground floor, retaining their glazing bars, and a central first-floor French window opening onto a balcony over a ground-floor verandah. The verandah was described as having a “good geometric iron trellis pattern and scroll pattern over the first floor.” A small, gabled recessed two-window service wing to the southwest is also mentioned. The interior was not inspected but is likely to retain features of interest. The villa is remarkably complete externally and is considered a rare example of an undivided Torquay villa.