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Cliff Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Paignton, Torbay

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4327 / 50°25'57"N

Longitude: -3.5585 / 3°33'30"W

OS Eastings: 289404

OS Northings: 60367

OS Grid: SX894603

Mapcode National: GBR QT.S9BZ

Mapcode Global: FRA 37FX.9GD

Plus Code: 9C2RCCMR+3H

Entry Name: Cliff Cottage

Listing Date: 13 March 1951

Last Amended: 25 October 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208148

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383850

ID on this website: 101208148

Location: Torbay, Devon, TQ4

County: Torbay

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Paignton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Goodrington St George

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage

Description


SX8960
1947-1/6/79
13/03/51

PAIGNTON
ROUNDHAM ROAD
(North side)
Cliff Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
ROUNDHAM ROAD
Old World Cottage, Holcombe Cottage, Cliff Cottage)







GV
II

Small house. Probably late C18. Plastered mass wall; thatched
roof with plain ridge, hipped at ends, right-end stack with
rendered shaft, rear left corner stack.
PLAN: L-plan, built adjacent to and above the harbour and
facing away from it. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide
with a central entrance, rear right unheated wing at
right-angles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-window front with c1930s enclosed porch
with hipped tiled roof and half-glazed front door. 2-light
small-pane timber casements.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest,
including an original roof.
HISTORY: Patterson identifies this cottage as the coastguard's
cottage noted in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his 'Panorama of
Torquay' (1831). Paintings and an 1890 photograph of Cliff
Cottage (Tully) show a single-storey outbuilding attached at
the left end.
(Painting at the Paignton Club: 1890-1920; Tully P: Peter
Tully's Pictures of Paignton: 1988-: 37).

Listing NGR: SX8940460367

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