Listed building outline

Wolborough House

Field Value Fact links
Reference 383528 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name Wolborough House Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Torbay Council no fact link
Start date 1993-10-17 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1993-10-17 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.502857 50.399623, -3.503026 50.399563, -3.503029 50.39955, -3.503048 50.399544, -3.503041 50.399534, -3.503051 50.399526, -3.503031 50.399505, -3.503012 50.399505, -3.503003 50.399494, -3.503062 50.399471, -3.502986 50.399389, -3.503004 50.399383, -3.503039 50.399334, -3.503004 50.399324, -3.502968 50.399371, -3.502979 50.399383, -3.502906 50.39941, -3.502924 50.39943, -3.502696 50.399513, -3.502739 50.399558, -3.50278 50.399542, -3.502857 50.399623))) Facts
Point POINT (-3.502909 50.399502) Facts
Dataset name Facts
Notes Large house, empty at time of survey. 1910 (rainwater heads). Rusticated local grey limestone with sections of roughcast and tile-hanging; tiled roof with decorated cast-iron railings; stacks with stone shafts and moulded cornices. Eclectic style mixture of Arts and Crafts and French Baroque. Plan: 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep; rear entrance into hall containing stair; basement reputed to be original ballroom now divided into flats. Exterior: 2 storeys, the ground floor over an arcaded terrace at the front, which lights the basement. Ground floor stone; first floor roughcast; unusual coved sgraffito cornice. Timber mullioned and transomed windows, mostly with small leaded panes above the transoms. Terrace with decorated cast-iron railings on arcade of round-headed arches, corbelled out in the centre. Terrace extends round return with turned balusters. The entrance elevation, to the rear has a 3-bay symmetrical ground floor with a moulded segmental-arched stone doorway in the centre, flanked by 4-light bow windows. First floor has 4 windows. 2 bowed and a cast-iron balcony on cast-iron brackets. The balcony returns round one wall of the projecting service wing at the left. INTERIOR: also eclectic. Main ground-floor room baronial Tudor style with oak panelling and inglenook fireplace with stone segmental-headed chimneypiece and carved text on inner arch of inglenook. Probably original wall light fittings. Other rooms stylistically varied with different plasterwork and chimneypieces ranging from C17 to Adam style; good bolection-moulded chimneypiece in billiard room. Stair with timber balustrade and interesting stained glass in stair window illustrating scenes from the history of Brixham including the landing of William of Orange. A richly detailed house in an eclectic mixture of styles, prominently sited above the harbour on steeply-rising ground. Listing NGR: SX9328456597 Facts
Listed building 1293248 Facts

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