Mintons Woods Way

TORQUAY

SX9263 HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/118 (West side) 10/01/75 Mintons and Woods Way (Formerly Listed as: HIGHER WOODFIELD ROAD Iona)

GV II

Villa, subdivided. Probably 1835 (Pevsner). Plastered; hipped slate roofs; stacks with deep projecting cornices and some orignal octagonal pots. PLAN: Rectangular double-depth main block with entrance on the south side and north-east service wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves and verges on moulded brackets; eaves and verges band; first-floor platband. 3-bay front, broken forward and gabled in the centre. Flat-roofed projecting porch in centre with pilaster strips, platband and plain proud architraves to openings. Round-headed doorway with recessed 4-panel front door with timber panelling in arch above. Door flanked by round-headed sash windows. First-floor centre window recessed and glazed with small-pane sash with radial glazing bars. Ground-floor window right a 12-pane sash; first- floor window with Venetian shutters. 3-bay garden elevation with canted bay windows to ground foor and tent-roof verandah on posts with floor of octagonal tiles, which returns for 2 bays along the entrance front. INTERIOR: Not inspected but noted in Pevsner as having fine plaster ceilings and interesting wall and floor tiling added after the building was bought by Herbert Minton, the tile-maker, in 1856, including wall tiles to a design by Pugin. HISTORY: Similar in detail to Singlton (qv) on the opposite side of the road. Shown on 1866 OS map as 'Belmont'. An unspoiled example of one of the earlier Torquay villas. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.860).

Listing NGR: SX9253163369