Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE MARKET STREET 1012-1/13/95 (North West side) 22/03/83 No.7 Liberal Club

GV II

Purpose-built Liberal Club house incorporating a separate office. Dated 1913. MATERIALS: incised stucco, painted freestone dressings, hipped slate roof with a moulded stack to the rear of the left return. STYLE: Italianate (Venetian Palazzo) style. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Elaborate returned modillion cornice with egg-and-dart frieze; moulded lintel strings to each floor; plate-glass sash windows to the second floor; cross windows to the first floor. The first-floor terminal windows have cartouche-scroll friezes and cornices formed by the stepped-forward lintel string; piano nobile has three cross windows behind a triple arcade supported by paired Ionic columns on a stone balustrade, the centre is stepped forward on brackets. Banded rustication to the ground floor; to the left is a hood on large moulded brackets over double 3-panel doors and a 3-pane overlight; the separate office has a tripartite plate-glass sash window to the right and a half-glazed door with a 3-pane overlight to the inside right. INTERIOR: not inspected. A distinguished but remarkably conservative facade for its date.



Listing NGR: SX8580271345

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)