The Georgian House

The Georgian House is a villa located on Park Hill Road in Torquay, originally built around the 1830s with an addition from the 1850s and later rear additions from the late 20th century. It is currently used as an old people's home. The building features plastered stacks with rendered shafts and moulded cornices.

The structure is three storeys high with a basement and has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front, along with a one-bay wing to the right. There is a first-floor and eaves platband, with outer pilaster strips extending from the platband to the eaves. Shallow projecting stacks are located to the left and right of the centre, with shafts that rise through the roof. The centre bay contains 12-pane sash windows on both the first and second floors, while the second-floor sash is located in the right-hand chimney shaft. The ground floor features round-headed sashes on the left and right sides.

An elaborate three-bay Roman Doric porch, possibly added in the Edwardian period, is a notable feature. It includes freestanding and engaged columns with an entablature, a round-headed outer doorway flanked by pilasters and a keyblock, and round-headed openings in the outer bays with keyblocks and ramped balustrading. The porch also has a mosaic floor.

To the right, there is a gabled wing with round-headed two-pane sashes on the first and second floors, and a tripartite segmental-headed sash on the ground floor. The left return of the main block consists of three bays divided by pilasters above the first-floor platband, with round-headed ground-floor sashes and other windows featuring two-pane sashes, one of which has been replaced with a modern window.

Inside, the stair hall boasts a good plaster cornice with a delicate acanthus pattern, an open well stick baluster stair with galleried landings, and panelled doors.