Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8670 COURTENAY ROAD
1012-1/11/26 Nos.4 AND 6
22/03/83 Clinton (No.4) and Belmont (No.6)

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Semi-detached pair of houses. Mid C19. Painted stucco, slate
roofs with moulded stacks to gable ends, party walls and rear.
STYLE: Tudor Gothic.
PLAN: each house is L-plan with paired projecting central
wings and rear wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 6-window range
with projecting central bays making 2:2:2 fenestration.
Gables with elaborate fretted bargeboards to returns,
projecting central wings and flanking 3-storey slightly
projecting bays.
Label moulds over one-light windows to attics and between
gabled bays, and over sash windows designed as cross windows
on upper floors; single-storey canted bays below front gables
with hipped roofs and pendant friezes, probably cast-iron (the
bay to No.6 to the left may be later as it is higher and
deeper with French windows).
No.6 has a 4-panel door and a C20 porch in the angle. No.4 has
a half-glazed lean-to porch in the angle with trefoil-headed
vertical panes.
The external stacks in the returns are offset at each floor
with an inserted semicircular-arched window to the attic and
paired chamfered shafts.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the development undertaken for the Courtenays,
c1840-60.

Listing NGR: SX8638970826

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548559

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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