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Summary

A large house built on Daison common with formal gardens between 1775 and 1862 but demolished and built over by 1928.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Torbay HER: MTO55536

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• Mansion (XVIII to XX - 1800 AD to 1923 AD (Between))

Full description

Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.

The former large house of The Daison is present on the first edition OS County Series survey 1861-2, it is not present on the Cary estate map of the Manor of St Marychurch of c.1775, where the site and grounds appear then simply as "Daison Common"; what is now Daison Woods are fields 220 and 221. Only Teignmouth and Westhill Roads are present at that date. [1][2] The construction of the house is most likely to have been bewteen 1800-50.

The house was vacant in 1917, for sale 1920 and had disappeared by 1923. The Daison Housing estate was built on the site of the house and grounds: First, Second, Third Avenues ran north from Main Avenue which connected with Chatto Road, and Westhill Road. The house itself lay at the northern end of First Avenue; its footprint beneath Nos 17-31 & 28-40 First Avenue.

<1> 1775, The Manor of St Marychurch (Plan - measured). SDV362321.

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<2> Brownlow, W.R., 1886, Transactions of the Devonshire Association (Article in Serial). SDV362586.

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