Description

TORQUAY

SX9163 VAUGHAN PARADE
885-1/17/296 (West side)
10/01/75 Nos.3-15 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
VAUGHAN PARADE
Nos.3-9 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: Nos.3-9 PALK STREET.
Terrace of 7 houses. 1831, to the designs of Jacob Harvey.
Thorough renovation, replanning and rear additions of 1991.
Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with rendered
shafts.
PLAN: In an important position, facing the inner harbour. Each
house double-depth on plan, arranged as pairs with doors
towards the centre and end stacks, stairs facing door. Old
list description refers to 2 original shopfronts. Present
scheme has converted each ground floor into a shop, removed
ground floors of Nos 3 & 4 to provide walkway through to rear,
and added single-storey range of shops along rear wall on the
model of Cheltenham and Bath.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic 14-bay front, ground floor
almost entirely renewed. Recessed front doors with deep
overlights in doorcases with panelled reveals; pilasters with
incised Greek key decoration. Shop fronts, entirely renewed,
have left and right pilasters; windows with deep fascias;
glazed shop doors with low panels, overlights and pilasters.
First-floor windows 6 over 9-pane sashes, the 2 right-hand
with original cast-iron balconies, some others with modern
copies. Second-floor windows 3 over 6-pane sashes; attic
dormers with segmental heads. The rear elevation shops are in
an historical style.
INTERIOR: Not inspected in detail, but appears to be
replanned.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989:
P.856).

Listing NGR: SX9180263496

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502066

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Old House Care and Repair