Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 SEYMOUR ROAD 1012-1/9/116 Nos.62 AND 64 22/03/83

II

House, now two dwellings. Mid C19. Render, slate roof with moulded stacks to rear right and two flanking the central room. PLAN: complex L-plan with large 3-storey service wing to the rear left corner. EXTERIOR: the front facing west, is 2 storeys with cellars; 7-window range with wood cross windows set in chamfered architraves. The building is surrounded by a castellated slightly projecting parapet with blocks below simulating machicolation; rendered rusticated quoins; raised rusticated architraves to cross windows with 2-pane casements to bases. No.62 to the right has a large canted and castellated bay to the inside right higher than the parapet. A single-storey castellated enclosed porch is set in the angle between the bay and the projecting right-hand range. The outer moulded pointed-arched door has vertical panels, the inner door is also panelled with a polychromatic tiled floor between. No.64, the former service wing to the left, has entrances in the left return, south garden front. 3-storey 3-window range with similar windows, those to the centre of the upper floors are blind. A castellated single-storey block to the right has C20 windows and doors. INTERIOR: panelled shutters; moulded cornices and ceiling roses. The central ground-floor room has a white marble fireplace flanked by Tuscan pillars, the room to the left has a black marble fireplace, both, and those to the first floor have later C19 cast-iron arch-plate grates, the bedroom in the canted bay has panelled shutters. The staircase against the rear wall projects into the rear hall, is open-well, open-string, with fretted-ends, stick balusters and a mahogany rail wreathed at top and to both sides of the base. The interior of No.64 is said to be altered.

Listing NGR: SX8612371712

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)