Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE HIGHWEEK STREET
1012-1/13/85 (North East side)
16/07/49 No.2
and attached wall

GV II

House, now offices. Mid/late C18 with substantial late C19
extension to the right.
MATERIALS: red Flemish-bond brick with burnt headers, painted
freestone dressings and parapet coping, Plymouth stone plinth,
slate roof with 2 large brick ridge stacks.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to the C18
block, 5 windows to the whole facade. Fine rubbed brick detail
to flat arches and brick platband. Central bay is stepped
slightly forward (with a pediment as part of the parapet) over
a moulded forward frame to a plate-glass sash window and
Georgian-style doorcase with and open dentil pediment on
engaged Ionic columns, fine cobweb fanlight, raised and
fielded panels to the reveals, soffit and 8-panel door. This
is flanked by full-height wide segmental bays with curved
frames to C19 plate-glass windows. Painted iron bands secure
the parapet wall.
Range to the left, rendered to the second floor, has double
plank doors and a Venetian window with plate-glass sashes to
the first floor.
Late C19 range to the right has similar but harder brickwork
to the ground floor and a forward-facing timber-framed gable
with a tall oriel window on brackets and curved glass to the
corner panes. The C19 right return is in similar style.
INTERIOR: fine c1770s detail including swag and paterae frieze
to the hall and a plain C18 staircase with scroll tread ends.
The room to the ground-floor left has a frieze with maidens
and swags and a C18 wooden fireplace with a reclining female
in the roundel. The room to the ground-floor right has a C18
fireplace with pilasters, swags and relief of a chariot drawn
by lions, and a pilastered alcove. At the top of the staircase
are fluted Composite half columns with swag decoration. The
first-floor right-hand room has a C18 fireplace with pilasters
and central panel with boar hunt. Floral frieze. 6-panel
doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a brick wall with burnt headers and stone
plinth and capping attached to the right extends for approx
20m along the street to meet rusticated gate piers approx 2m
high.

Listing NGR: SX8573471337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548350

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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