Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 COURTENAY PARK ROAD
1012-1/9/16 (West side)
26/03/75 Nos.9, 10 AND 11
Seymour House (No.9) and Tower House
(No.11)

GV II

Terrace of three houses. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: painted stucco, shallow-pitched roof with stack to
rear of No.9 to the left.
STYLE: Italianate.
PLAN: double-depth plans.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Nos 9 and 10, 3 storeys to the tower of
No.11 to the right; each house is 2-window range. Wides eaves
and platbands, banded pilasters to the ground floors and
rusticated quoins to upper floors.
No.9 has a projecting gabled front right wing, to the first
floor is a semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash window with a
raised surround, keystone, imposts and bracketed sill over an
8/8-pane sash in a raised surround with a cornice on fluted
consoles. The doorcase in the angle of the set-back entrance
range to the left has pilasters with moulded caps and a
shallow plain pediment over a 4-panel door and 2-pane
overlight. To the left is a 4/4-pane sash window and above is
a 6/6-pane sash.
No.10 to the centre has two plain 6/6-pane sash windows to the
first floor and similar window with fluted consoles to
cornice, door and doorcase to No.9 on the ground floor.
No.11 to has a 3-storey belvedere tower to the left with wide
bracketed eaves to a shallow hipped roof. To the front and
right return it has pilasters with moulded caps and bracketed
sills to triple windows, semicircular-arched with keystones to
the second floor, under a shallow plain pediment to the first
floor and under a cornice on fluted consoles to the ground
floor. Windows to the upper floors of the right return are
blind. The mullions have been removed to the ground-floor
front.
The set-back right 2-storey wing has a C20 enclosed porch over
the door. All the windows to No.11 are C20 metal-framed.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A good example of an Italianate terrace, asymmetrically
composed with a belvedere in the Osborne manner.
Part of the Courtenay Park development, laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8651971033

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548581

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover