Margaret Clitherow House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Orphanage, priory. 1 related planning application.
Margaret Clitherow House
- WRENN ID
- silent-pewter-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Orphanage, priory
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX9165 PRIORY ROAD, St Marychurch 885-1/11/444 (South East side) 10/01/75 Margaret Clitherow House (Formerly Listed as: PRIORY ROAD Priory of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis)
GV II
Orphanage, later used as priory. 1865 to the designs of Joseph Hansom. Local grey rock-faced limestone, laid to course with ashlar quoins and freestone dressings; gabled slate roofs; stacks with ashlar stone shafts and brattished cornices. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Long 9-window entrance front with 6 coped gables; moulded string at first-floor level. Moulded arched doorway to left with hoodmould and recessed 2-leaf plank front door with elaborte strap hinges. Stone mullioned windows with chamfered mullions, transomed on the ground floor some with trefoil-headed or lancet lights above the transom. First-floor windows square-headed. Some second- floor windows with trefoil-headed lights. 6th bay from the left has a 2-storey canted bay with hipped stone roof. Square bay with stone roof across left-hand ground-floor corner, facing towards the church. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.
Listing NGR: SX9194665862
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