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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548254

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]