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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548528

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)