Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571 HIGHWEEK ROAD
1012-1/8/79 (North East side)
22/03/83 No.10

GV II

Detached house, now part of a school. Mid C19.
Incised stucco to the front, C20 painted roughcast to the
rest; hipped slate roof with tall stacks to both returns, one
to the left and 2 to the right.
PLAN: double-depth with a late C19 two-storey flat-roofed rear
wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to the garden
front, unusually with a niche instead of door to the centre.
8/8-pane sash windows to the first floor; French windows flank
a full-height hemi-spherical -topped niche to the ground
floor; pilasters, with mask to the tops of boldly incised
intertwining lines have a blank space where a former verandah
was attached. 2 glazing bar sashes and doorway in right
return. The 6-panel door with a cast-iron wreath knocker under
a semicircular fanlight with a circular pane to the centre,
and a chamfered archivolt.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having panelled shutters
to the ground floor.

Listing NGR: SX8550771560

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548371

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990