Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 EAST STREET
1012-1/9/63 (North side)
Nos.117-123 (Odd)
including ropewalk to the left

GV II

Row of four houses including the ropewalk to left. Early C19.
Render, continuous slate roof with stacks to party walls.
Double-depth plans.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; overall 7-window range of 1:3:3
fenestration. To the left are C20 garage doors to a wide
flat-arched carriage entrance, a plaque over the door reads
"EAST STREET ROOM" and painted onto the lintel "The Rope
Walk"; above it is a late C19 3/3-pane sash window with
vertical glazing bars and no horns, a small 3-pane window
above it is probably C20; the left gable end has moulded
coping. Nos 117 and 119 are a symmetrical pair with 6/6-pane
sash windows, one over central paired C20 doors with narrow
overlights flanked by a similar window to each floor. Nos 121
& 123 are a symmetrical pair with C20 doors to entrances in a
central passageway leading to a rear courtyard with other
houses (not of special interest), No.121 has half-glazed
French windows to the front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the ropewalk was extended 140 yards in 1828 by Samuel
Yeo, whose son built a chapel in East Street.
(Jones R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington: 1979-).

Listing NGR: SX8616871145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548459

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