St Martins

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 TORRS PARK 853-1/6/133 (North side) St Martins

GV II

Detached house. Dated 1880 on plaque over entrance. By WM Robbins of Ilfracombe. Gothic style. MATERIALS: red brick with dressings of yellow and black brick; details in stone, red terracotta and wood. Tarred, slated roof with crested ridge tiles. Red and yellow brick chimney to right of ridge. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garret. 3-window front. Projecting entrance porch in centre, the brickwork at either side carried up to form a pair of large gables. Porch has doorway with pointed arch, its head flanked by bands of red and black brick; half glazed double doors with coloured glass in fanlight. Above the porch a wooden semi-octagonal bay window with base of enriched terracotta panels and pointed roof. Outer windows set in tall, pointed arched yellow brick recesses rising into the gables, which have traceried bargeboards. At either side of the porch in ground storey a glazed conservatory surmounted by a balustraded wooden balcony. In the side walls square wooden bay windows with half-timbered panels. INTERIOR partially inspected, with original cornices, enriched doorframes and original stair. This is one of the best houses in Torrs Park. It is listed (without an occupant) in the census return for April 1881. A house seen to be shown on this site in a block plan of about 1879-80 in Board of Health File. (Ilfracombe Chronicle, 23.7.1937: Hussell AT: 8; Census Return Public Record Office on microfilm: West Country Studies Lib.: 1881-; Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning File 5A on microfilm: North Devon District Council Planning Department).

Listing NGR: SS5109347335