Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE
1012-1/9/38 (West side)
26/03/75 Nos.27-33 (Consecutive)
and attached plinths and piers

GV II

Terrace of seven double-fronted houses stepped downhill from
No.27 to the left. Mid C19. Painted stucco, slate roofs with
stacks to the party walls and ends, mostly with dentil
cornices.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; each house is a 3-bay symmetrical
4-window range. Each house has an eaves band, plain pilasters,
a moulded first-floor sill string course with a similar course
just below and banded rustication to the ground floor.
Central bay projects with a shallow-pitched bracketed gable
above the eaves; the pilasters flanking this bay meet as a
semicircular arch above paired narrow 2/2-pane sash windows
with horizontal glazing bars and moulded imposts and
archivolts. A shallow balcony (Nos 27-30 cons. have cast-iron
balustrades) below the sill, supported by elaborate consoles,
forms a porch over a set-back semicircular-arched door with a
fanlight.
Nos 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32 have original doors with 2 vertical
panels, No.29 has 4-panel door and No.33 has late C19
six-panel door with chamfered arrises.
6/6-pane sash windows to the first floor of outer ranges are
flanked by pilasters between the eaves band and the sill
string; brackets to the sills connect the two strings and
flank panelled aprons. Ground-floor windows are 2/2-pane
tripartite sashes with horizontal glazing bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the terrace is fronted by a plinth to
former railings connected to the houses by dividing walls
terminating in pyramidal-capped piers.
Devon Square was the centre of the development carried out for
the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs of JW Rowell.
A remarkably well-preserved terrace.

Listing NGR: SX8634671203

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548555

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