Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE WOLBOROUGH STREET
1012-1/13/152 (South side)
22/03/83 No.83
and attached walls and railings

GV II

Detached house. c1840. Rough Devon limestone ashlar with
painted freestone dressings, slate roof with moulded stacks to
gable ends.
PLAN: double-depth plan with a 2-storey left wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plinth; the
central range is stepped slightly forward, a cornice and
blocking course follow the contour. Clasping ashlar pilasters
to the quoins have painted moulded capitals. Moulded painted
stone architraves and bracketed sills; late C19 horned
2/2-pane sash windows to the first floor flank a central C20
casement.
A wide door with a central vertical ridge flanked by 6 raised
and fielded panels and a 9-pane overlight with rounded tops
and bottoms is set under a good shallow prostyle Doric porch
with fluted columns, triglyph and patera frieze and cornice.
It is flanked by windows with cornices and late C19
plate-glass sashes without horns.
INTERIOR: not inspected but known to have some decorative
plasterwork.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the front corners are walls
with plain shallow pediments over flat-arched entrances to the
rear. That to the left has a granite step and a wrought-iron
gate, that to the right has a door with 2 vertical panels. The
right return is rendered, the left return is of squared
rubblestone. Very low plinths with spearhead railings attached
to the plinths of the columns of the porch, enclose paved
forecourts.

Listing NGR: SX8553771014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548173

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)