Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 QUEEN STREET
1012-1/9/106 (South side)
07/04/82 Nos.46-62 (Even)

GV II

No.58 only was listed on 7.4.82.
Terrace of 8 shops. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: painted brick with painted ashlar dressings, slate
roof unseen; rear wings are C20 roughcast.
PLAN: double-depth, with rear additions; corner site extending
back into Fairfield Terrace.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; units each of one- or 2-window ranges
articulated by flat stucco quoins. Both facades, articulated
by pilasters panelled at parapet level, are spanned by a coped
and panelled parapet, wide cornice, plain frieze, second-floor
platband and first-floor sill string course forming a
ground-floor cornice over the shop fronts.
Windows have raised surrounds, bracketed sills, rounded upper
corners to flat arches and horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane
sashes varying from one, two or three lights. First-floor
windows have cornices on consoles. Some banded rustication to
ground floor remains notably to No.62 at the corner and to the
left return which has a semicircular and a segmental arch with
marked rusticated voussoirs toward the rear.
C20 shop fronts except No.58 which is a very fine example of a
c1900 shop front (originally a chemist's); glazed door to the
right-of-centre has ornamental sand-blasted panel and notice
which reads, "PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY DISPENSED", a low
carved raised-and-fielded panel to the base, curved and carved
top, lintel and pediment set in the overlight. Plate glass
windows have carved tops to turned colonettes and elaborate
overlights with cut-glass stars to circular panes, those
flanking the set-back door are curved inward.
INTERIOR: No.58 has mosaic floor, moulded cornice and
exceptionally complete series of original fittings,
principally pedimented display cabinets to rear and side
walls. The entrance to No.54 has a late C19 shop front and
entrance with mosaic floor, original name removed. C19
interior has full-height tongue-and-groove panelling and a
panelled ceiling.
A substantially complete terrace and one of a group in Queen
Street standing in a prominent position close to Church House
(qv).
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 592).

Listing NGR: SX8619071338

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548283

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