Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE WOLBOROUGH STREET 1012-1/13/136 (South side) 16/07/49 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Three houses, now office, restuarant and shop. C17, formerly dated 1690. MATERIALS: painted render probably over a timber frame, 3 slated forward-facing gabled roofs with stacks finished in C19 cream brick to rear left and right end. PLAN: 3 right-angled ranges, each with gables facing street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. To the first floor of each unit is a C20 timber-mullioned oriel window on brackets. The range to the left (No.1, on the corner with East street) is set back; it has a moulded cornice, probably over a former mullioned window, and some rusticated quoins to the first floor right. The ground floor has a early C20 shop front which projects to the building line of the front and left return with plate-glass windows with leaded overlights and moulded sills and a C20 door to the upper floor to the rear of the right return. No.2 to the centre, has a recessed 4-light window to the ground floor similar to the oriel above with a C17 painted door to the right with fleur-de-lys tips to C17 wrought-iron stap hinges incorporated between the studded panelling on the front and the planked rear. No.3 to the right has some hanging tiles to the apex of the gable, now heavily painted over, an oriel to the first floor and a late C19 shop front with pilasters, moulded fascia and decorative wooden upper corners to plate-glass windows, one to the left and two to the right. Nos 2 and 3 have painted simulated timber-framing to the gables. INTERIOR: altered; only partially inspected and roof not seen. (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 592).



Listing NGR: SX8580871191

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