Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE
1012-1/9/41 (North side)
No.44

GV II

House, now a surgery. Mid C19. Painted stucco, slate roof with
moulded stacks to left and rear. L-plan with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plain eaves band,
continuous first-floor sill band and plinth. 6/6-pane sash
windows to the first floor, that to the gabled projecting
left-hand range is semicircular arched with radial glazing
bars above a late C19 canted bay with a swept lead roof,
dentil cornice, panelled mullions and horizontal glazing bars
to 2/2-pane sash windows. The angle to the set-back right-hand
ranges is infilled with a C20 lean-to entrance.
INTERIOR: moulded architraves to original 4-panel doors,
roll-moulded cornice and dado rail to the room to the
ground-floor left, open string staircase with turned
balusters, wreath handrail and curtail step, half-glazed
margin-paned door with cut-glass stars to coloured flash glass
corners. The room to the front right has C19 ornamental
pelmets, possibly of compo.
Included as part of a complete square, the centre of the
development carried for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs
of JW Rowell.

Listing NGR: SX8635471307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548534

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)