Riviera Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1949. Cinema, assembly rooms. 2 related planning applications.
Riviera Cinema
- WRENN ID
- empty-bracket-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1949
- Type
- Cinema, assembly rooms
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TEIGNMOUTH
SX9472 DEN CRESCENT 25-1/7/135 Riviera Cinema 30/06/49
GV II
Assembly Rooms. 1826 by Andrew Patey of Exeter. Restored and altered 1934. Neoclassical style. Rectangular plan with stair turret to rear right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range. A cornice and blocking course surround the building, C20 additions to the roof. A projecting ground floor has 8 unfluted Greek Doric columns in antis; the upper floors have 1934 ornamental windows (good of their type) articulated by an Ionic grand order of 4 central columns supporting a pediment flanked by pilasters. Windows to the returns are blind, those to the right return are later C19 with moulded architraves, some are tripartite with cornices on consoles. C20 shops to the ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected but known to be altered following conversion into a cinema in mid C20. The centrepiece of an elegant planned layout by Patey which forms an overall crescent facing the sea, flanked by Nos 6-10 and 1-5 (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 799).
Listing NGR: SX9411972825
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