Landour

The entry for:

TORQUAY

SX9263 LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD 885-1/18/144 (West side) 10/01/75 Landour Hotel

GV II

Shall be replaced by:

SX 9260 6361 TORQUAY LOWER WOODFIELD ROAD (West side)

Landour

10.1.75

GV II

Villa, divided into flats. c1840s with later alterations. Roughcast, originally stuccoed; hipped slate roof behind parapet; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth retangular plan with central entrance on Lower Woodfield Road side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-bay east front with left and right pilaster strips and a plain band below deep projecting cornice with parapet above. Centre bay breaks forward and has pedimented gable. Projecting flat-roofed central porch with pilasters and parapet, somewhat obscured by late C20 canopy on columns; C20 outer doors. Ground-floor window right is a 9-pane sash with a floating cornice on consoles. First floor centre and right windows have 12-pane sashes, blind window to left; single-storey flat-roof extension to left on porch. Similar south side, but without porch, additions and alterations; right-hand bay blind windows. Principal 3-bay west elevation, the outer bays with pediments and broad pilasters, the narrow centre bay has aedicule on ground floor and shallow niche above, 12-pane sashes to first floor and French casements on ground floor; lower flat roof extension on left (NW) corner. Various later additions on north side. INTERIOR: much altered by its conversions to flats. Although altered this is an important item in the group of villas around Torwood Gardens.

Listing NGR: SX9260563616