Entrance Gates And Pavilions At Recreation Ground Entrance Pavilions And Gates At Recreation Ground

TORQUAY

SX9063 RATHMORE ROAD 885-1/17/219 (East side) Entrance pavilions and gates at Recreation Ground

GV II

Entrance pavilions incorporating ticket offices to recreation ground. 1910 (Ellis). Local grey Torquay limestone ashlar; timber canopies; lead roof; iron gates. Eclectic style with some Gothic detail. PLAN: Pair of octagonal pavilions with turnstyles and vehicular gates in between and pedestrian gates to left and right. EXTERIOR: Plinth with fielded stone panels; string course below high-transomed windows to each face, divided by pilasters with moulded capitals. Octagonal timber canopy over windows on decorated cast-iron brackets, the canopy with a timber fascia with roundels and a bold dentil course below the cornice. Timber pendants and finials to each angle. Pyramidal lead roof to the canopy, interrupted by an octagonal open timber lantern with round-headed arches, a deep moulded cornice and a pyramidal lead roof decorated with lead gables with cast-iron finials. Narrow doorways in north face of each pavilion. Windows with central mullions and applied Perpendicular tracery with foiled tracery above the transom. Main gates have scrollwork above the top rail and may be secondary. Pedestrian gates have roundel friezes; scrollwork above the top rail and cast-iron standards with sunk panels and rounded finials. Openings to left-hand (west) pavilion boarded up at time of survey. HISTORY: Ellis provides a brief history of the recreation ground. (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.387-388).

Listing NGR: SX9070263429