Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE
1012-1/9/36 (South side)
16/07/49 Nos.14-24 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of eleven houses. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: painted stucco with rusticated quoins, continuous
slate roof with wide bracketed eaves cornice and moulded
stacks to party walls.
STYLE: Italianate.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 21-window range of 1:8:3:8:1
fenestration. Continuous second-floor sill band, first-floor
band and plinth. Ranges to the centre and ends are stepped
forward; the returns have projecting 3-storey gabled porch
wings.
The one-window range terminal bays have horizonal glazing bars
to 3-light 2/2-pane sash windows with a semicircular arch to
each light to the second floor, first-floor windows are
tripartite with moulded pediments on consoles and cast-iron
balconies. Similar glazing to ground-floor windows which have
rusticated bands to the jambs under plain pediments.
Entrances are in the returns which have similar single-light
windows; rusticated jambs and voussoirs to semicircular arches
and fanlights over 2-vertical-panelled doors.
The four houses to each side of the centre are 2-window range
articulated by pilasters with moulded capitals. Windows to the
second floor have roll-moulded arrisses and segmental arches
to 3/6-pane sashes. Those to the first floor have horizontal
glazing bars to 2/2-pane sashes, bracketed sills, moulded
aprons and architraves with cornices supported by consoles.
Tripartite ground-floor windows have banded rusticated jambs
and plain shallow pediments. Doorcases are similar to those of
the returns.
No.19 to the centre, is a pedimented 3-window range with a
balcony to the first floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The most imposing "palace front" in Devon Square, the centre
of the development carried out for the Courtenays c1840-60 to
the designs of JW Rowell.
No.19 Devon Square was first listed on 22.3.83.

Listing NGR: SX8641771140

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548550

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