Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE 1012-1/9/39 (West side) 26/03/75 Nos.34, 35 AND 36 and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Terrace of three houses stepped downhill from No.34 to the left. Painted stucco, slate roofs with rendered stacks to the left of each house. PLAN: double-depth with 2-storey rear wings. EXTERIOR: bracketed eaves, eaves bands, moulded first-floor sill courses, plinths, 6/6-pane sash windows. The range to the left of each house is stepped forward and breaks through the eaves to form almost a gabled half-dormer. These ranges with shallow-pitched roofs, are framed by plain pilasters combining with an eaves band over semicircular arched first-floor windows which are 2 panes wide and 6 panes high with keystones to moulded archivolts on consoles. Similar archivolts to the doorcases with fanlights below are supported by clasping pilasters. C20 doors to Nos 34 and 35, C19 four-panel door to No.36. Between the keystones and the sill bands are dentil cornices. Windows to the first-floor right have pilasters to the jambs between the eaves bands and the sill bands, ground-floor windows have raised eared surrounds, slightly pedimented lintels and brackets to the sills. Windows to the left return are similar. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourts are enclosed by coped and rendered walls between painted rendered gate piers with plinths and shallow pyramidal caps. Coped walls to the front have elaborate panels of pierced interlocking circles. Devon Square was the centre of the development carried out for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs of JW Rowell.

Listing NGR: SX8633571263

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