Warberries Nursing Home

TORQUAY

SX9264SW LOWER WARBERRY ROAD 885-1/20/140 (North side) 02/05/74 Warberries Nursing Home (Formerly Listed as: LOWER WARBERRY ROAD Audrey Court and Dunstone)

GV II

Shown on OS map as Audrey Court. Villa, now a residential home. c1860s, said originally to have been one property with Dunstone (qv) adjoining at right. Large C20 extension to left. Plastered with a slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices. PLAN: Long irregular double-depth plan with a C20 entrance to left of centre and an axial corridor leading to the stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the main block 2-windows and broken forward to the right with an open pediment over the left-hand window with paired pilasters to left and right. Tripartite ground and first-floor reglazed C20 timber windows with sunblind fascias below pediments on consoles. French window to ground-floor right with a sunblind fascia. Probably Edwardian bay window above with a dentil cornice and pediment and a balustraded balcony on large, decorated cast-iron brackets. Set-back, lower-roofed block to left with a C20 recessed porch with window alongside to left and a canted bay window above onto a balustraded balcony. INTERIOR: Preserves joinery and plaster cornices. The original building is said to have been erected by General Redvers Buller in 1868.

Listing NGR: SX9246264048