Rotunda, Paignton

Heritage listing

Details PAIGNTON SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/111 (West side) 10/01/75 Former Riding School and Banqueting House at Oldway Mansion (Formerly Listed as: TORQUAY ROAD Former Riding School & Stables.....including former Conservatory Winter Garden) GV II Riding school and banqueting hall, riding school now used as offices; banqueting hall as workshops. 1874 by GS Bridgman for Isaac Singer (qv Oldway Mansion). MATERIALS: Flemish bond red brick on local grey limestone footings; slate roof with stacks with grouped red brick shafts with stone bands and corbelled caps with stone pots. PLAN: Riding school and exercise pavilion, round on plan, with remnant of glass-house at west side. This was designed with an open central area with stabling, harness rooms etc round the outside. It had a movable wood floor which was put in when it was used for entertaining. At the NW a banqueting hall with end towers is now used as a workshop block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The riding school has moulded toothed brick cornices both to the main block and the lantern, the main block has a frieze of decorative tiles below the cornice on the main block. The lantern has a peaked slate roof with lucarnes, a weathervane and clerestorey windows. Rotunda has massive gabled porch on S side, facing Oldway Mansion, with a full-height round-headed doorway with triple keyblock with incised decoration and left and right semi-circular cheeks. Massive 2-leaf door with studs, chamfered stopped rails and a wicket door. The left-hand cheek retains a barleysugar iron column, a remnant of the massive palm house which once stood between the house and the pavilion. The pavilion has 2-light ground-floor high-transomed windows with a decorative tile panel above, below the sill of the first-floor windows which are mostly 2-light

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.