Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE HALCYON ROAD
1012-1/13/77 (North side)
24/02/93 Nos.57 AND 61
(Formerly Listed as:
HALCYON ROAD
(North side)
Nos.57, 59 AND 61)

II

Pair of attached houses. Built as one dwelling in the early
C17, extended to left in C18, heightened and turned into four
dwellings in early C19.
MATERIALS: rendered cob and rubble; gabled slate roofs; two
rear lateral stacks to right, that to the left is set in a
cross-gabled bay; inserted early C19 stack marks the left end
of the C17 house, with large C18 end stack to left-hand
extension.
PLAN: 3-unit plan with cross-passage set between two heated
rooms on right, room to right (with inserted stack to cob end
wall) probably unheated; C18 extension makes 4-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the 2-window range to right of No.61
retaining the original C17 eaves height. 6-window front has 3
mid/late C20 doors except a C19 plank door to No.61, which
also has C19 horizontal sliding sashes (a notable survival)
flanking door.
INTERIOR: C18 and C19 plank doors. C18 extension to left has
A-frame trusses with pegged collars (rafters and purlins are
C20). C17 range has 3 collar trusses with through purlins
(splay-scarfed at principals) and halved and notched apexes
with diagonally-set ridges (purlins and rafters are mostly
C20); No.61 has bressummer over open fireplace to left partly
blocked by C19 staircase; chamfered beam adjoins No.59 to
left; open fire with chamfered bressummer to room on right
which also has chamfered beam.

Listing NGR: SX8583371440

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548407

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Northumberland (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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)