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Features and description
- Over 6,000 sq ft of flexible accommodation
- Plenty of redevelopment potential
- Overlooking Torquay Harbour
- Period features throughout
- Central location
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This grand, Grade II Listed Georgian property is located in a highly desirable situation in the heart of Torquay, overlooking the harbour. Dating from the 1830s and currently being used as a language school, the property offers more than 6,000 square feet of flexible accommodation and could be redeveloped into luxury apartments, subject to the necessary consents. There are numerous attractive original features throughout, including high ceilings, two staircases with curved oak handrails, sash windows and elegant mouldings and panelling.
The ground floor has six spacious reception rooms, which are currently used for various school functions. The main office is a 25ft room with a large sash windows and a door opening to the front of the building. There is also a well-proportioned refreshment room, a games room,
a snooker room and a library, as well as a further
office, a pantry, a boiler room and a toilet block.
The first floor provides a further 11 rooms, many
of which are generously proportioned, while the
second floor provides a further six rooms, with
views to the front across the harbour and out to
sea. Overall, the property offers the advantages of numerous light and spacious rooms, which provides the flexibility to divide the house up into apartments or create one grand, luxury
residence.
At the front, the property opens onto The Terrace, with Torquay harbour and town centre just moments away. To the rear there is a car park with parking space for plenty of vehicles.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Strutt & Parker gives notice that: 1. These particulars do not constitute an offer or contract or part thereof. 2. All descriptions, photographs and plans are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. All measurements and specifications are approximate, are not necessarily to scale and may be subject to change. Any prospective purchaser must satisfy themselves of the correctness of the information within the particulars by inspection or otherwise. 3. Some images may be Computer Generated Images, are indicative only and may differ from the final build product. 4. Images may be of the show home rather than the individual unit. 5. Lifestyle images are indicative only. 6. Strutt & Parker does not have any authority to give any representations or warranties whatsoever in relation to this property (including but not limited to planning/building regulations), nor can it enter into any contract on behalf of the vendor. 7. Strutt & Parker does not accept responsibility for any expenses incurred by prospective purchasers in inspecting properties which have been sold, let or withdrawn. 8. We are able to refer you to SPF Private Clients Limited (“SPF”) for mortgage broking services, and to Alexander James Interiors (“AJI”), an interior design service. Should you decide to use the services of SPF, we will receive a referral fee from them of 25% of the aggregate of the fee paid to them by you for the arrangement of a mortgage and any fee received by them from the product provider. Should you decide to use the services of AJI, we will receive a referral fee of 10% of the net income received by AJI for the services they provide to you. 9. If there is anything of particular importance to you, please contact this office and Strutt & Parker will try to have the information checked for you. Photographs taken March 2022. Particulars prepared March 2022.
Strutt & Parker is a trading style of BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory & Property Management UK Limited, a private limited company registered in England & Wales with company number 04176965 whose registered office is at 5 Aldermanbury Square, London EC2V 7BP.
The property is set in a highly desirable position
in the heart of Torquay, overlooking the harbour. The setting is picturesque and highly convenient, with the town centre right on its doorstep. Torquay offers an excellent choice of shopping, supermarkets, leisure facilities and local amenities, including schools such as Torquay Girls and Boys’ Grammar Schools found in the town. Torquay’s mainline station provides direct services to Exeter, with some direct trains to London Paddington, and others connecting at Newton Abbot. Leisure activities include sailing and a variety of other water sports, walking, riding or cycling along the South West Coastal Path, which passes close by the property, and golf at Torquay Golf Course, which is just three miles away.
The ground floor has six spacious reception rooms, which are currently used for various school functions. The main office is a 25ft room with a large sash windows and a door opening to the front of the building. There is also a well-proportioned refreshment room, a games room,
a snooker room and a library, as well as a further
office, a pantry, a boiler room and a toilet block.
The first floor provides a further 11 rooms, many
of which are generously proportioned, while the
second floor provides a further six rooms, with
views to the front across the harbour and out to
sea. Overall, the property offers the advantages of numerous light and spacious rooms, which provides the flexibility to divide the house up into apartments or create one grand, luxury
residence.
At the front, the property opens onto The Terrace, with Torquay harbour and town centre just moments away. To the rear there is a car park with parking space for plenty of vehicles.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Strutt & Parker gives notice that: 1. These particulars do not constitute an offer or contract or part thereof. 2. All descriptions, photographs and plans are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. All measurements and specifications are approximate, are not necessarily to scale and may be subject to change. Any prospective purchaser must satisfy themselves of the correctness of the information within the particulars by inspection or otherwise. 3. Some images may be Computer Generated Images, are indicative only and may differ from the final build product. 4. Images may be of the show home rather than the individual unit. 5. Lifestyle images are indicative only. 6. Strutt & Parker does not have any authority to give any representations or warranties whatsoever in relation to this property (including but not limited to planning/building regulations), nor can it enter into any contract on behalf of the vendor. 7. Strutt & Parker does not accept responsibility for any expenses incurred by prospective purchasers in inspecting properties which have been sold, let or withdrawn. 8. We are able to refer you to SPF Private Clients Limited (“SPF”) for mortgage broking services, and to Alexander James Interiors (“AJI”), an interior design service. Should you decide to use the services of SPF, we will receive a referral fee from them of 25% of the aggregate of the fee paid to them by you for the arrangement of a mortgage and any fee received by them from the product provider. Should you decide to use the services of AJI, we will receive a referral fee of 10% of the net income received by AJI for the services they provide to you. 9. If there is anything of particular importance to you, please contact this office and Strutt & Parker will try to have the information checked for you. Photographs taken March 2022. Particulars prepared March 2022.
Strutt & Parker is a trading style of BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory & Property Management UK Limited, a private limited company registered in England & Wales with company number 04176965 whose registered office is at 5 Aldermanbury Square, London EC2V 7BP.
The property is set in a highly desirable position
in the heart of Torquay, overlooking the harbour. The setting is picturesque and highly convenient, with the town centre right on its doorstep. Torquay offers an excellent choice of shopping, supermarkets, leisure facilities and local amenities, including schools such as Torquay Girls and Boys’ Grammar Schools found in the town. Torquay’s mainline station provides direct services to Exeter, with some direct trains to London Paddington, and others connecting at Newton Abbot. Leisure activities include sailing and a variety of other water sports, walking, riding or cycling along the South West Coastal Path, which passes close by the property, and golf at Torquay Golf Course, which is just three miles away.