Clifton Cottages And Stone Walls To East Manor Barn Cottage And Stone Walls To East

TORQUAY

SX9263 OLD TORWOOD ROAD 885-1/18/199 (South side) 10/01/75 Manor Barn Cottage (No.1) Clifton Cottages (No.2) and stone walls to east

GV II

Barn, extended and altered as carriage house at one end, now converted into cottages. Difficult to date from surviving details but probably late C15 or C16 in origin; late C19 carriage house conversion, C20 conversion into cottages. Painted stone rubble barn, rear wall rendered; slate gabled roof; carriage house stone rubble with brick dressings; brick stacks. PLAN: A large rectangular barn with the remnants of a midstrey porch and no evidence of opposed rear entrance. The conversions have taken place within the old walls but with an extension at the left (south) end. EXTERIOR: Very altered. 2 storeys. 4:3 window front. The north end of the barn preserves a massive central buttress with a set-off; rear (west) elevation has 5 buttresses with set-offs. The front of Manor Barn Cottage retains the remnants of the midstrey: stone cheeks with a lean-to slate roof. Numerous modern openings, including roof lights, in the barn roof. Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Cottages preserve the character of the carriage house including the doorway, and has a higher-roofed addition at the left end. INTERIOR: Manor Barn Cottage inspected. No evidence of an early roof seen on survey. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall stone rubble walls, probably coeval with the barn, around the east side gardens. HISTORY: Although very altered this represents a fragment of pre-C19 Torquay. Torwood Grange was owned by Torre Abbey until 1540 when it was granted to John Ridgeway and Sir Thomas Denys. The manor house was pulled down in 1843 by the Harvey brothers when the site was developed with villas. Ellis includes a reproduction of the Reverend John Swete's c1780 sketch of the barn and its relationship to the manor house, p.263. (Ellis AC: An Historical Survey of Torquay: 1930-: PP.254-266).

Listing NGR: SX9254263750