{"entry-date":"1994-05-02","start-date":"1994-05-02","end-date":"","entity":42148146,"name":"Ochiltree House","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"390618","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":344,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.547782 50.464261, -3.547874 50.464246, -3.547848 50.464176, -3.547874 50.464172, -3.547865 50.464149, -3.547887 50.464144, -3.547908 50.464123, -3.547904 50.464114, -3.547964 50.464105, -3.547958 50.464091, -3.547929 50.464095, -3.547903 50.464028, -3.547893 50.46403, -3.547872 50.464021, -3.54784 50.464025, -3.547828 50.464039, -3.547818 50.464041, -3.547799 50.464032, -3.547769 50.464037, -3.547755 50.464052, -3.547756 50.464056, -3.547688 50.464067, -3.547692 50.464078, -3.547591 50.464094, -3.547629 50.464192, -3.547717 50.464178, -3.547719 50.464182, -3.54775 50.464178, -3.547782 50.464261)))","point":"POINT (-3.547778 50.464128)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Large villa. 1889. Plastered red sandstone walls; natural slate roofs hipped at ends; stacks with rendered shafts with sunk panels and deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Main block rectangular and double-depth on plan with entrance on north west corner into a stair hall, service block at east end. EXTERIOR: Very intact and richly-detailed. Asymmetrical 3:2-window garden front (the 2 windows to the service block). Deep eaves with eaves band and consoles; moulded sill band; platband; stuccoed quoins to ground floor and paired pilasters on the first floor. Two 2-storey canted bays to left with deep pyramidal slate roofs with sprocketed eaves and wrought-iron crowns. Segmental-headed windows, glazed with original 2-pane sashes with plastered architraves with consoles and faceted keyblocks. Sections of recessed balustrading below first-floor windows. Centre windows with floating cornices on consoles. Service wing has central shallow projecting stack flanked by windows with proud architraves. Entrance tower in north-west corner has stuccoed quoins and conical roof. Round-headed doorway with front door with faceted panels and original door furniture; floating cornice on consoles. Pair of first-floor round-headed windows with pilastered architraves, keyblocks and a section of blind balustrading below the sill. INTERIOR: Extremely well-preserved, and lavishly fitted-out. Stained glass; straight-flight stair with Jacobean-style balustrade and mahogany handrail; marble chimneypieces; outstanding plaster cornices including pairs of birds and fruit motifs. Service block incorporates a coal lift to raise coal from the cellar to the kitchen. HISTORY: Said to have been built for a Dr Black at a cost of »1,700 by a builder called Blatchford who built a group of large villas in this area of Chelston A rare example of a large, late Torquay villa still in single ownership and in an almost perfect state of preservation. On a prominent site and visible from many parts of Chelston, an unspoiled suburb of Torquay. Listing NGR: SX9012563858","listed-building":"1206775"}