Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 COURTENAY PARK ROAD
1012-1/9/17 (West side)
26/03/75 Nos.12 AND 13

GV II

Semi-detached pair of houses. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: painted roughcast, stucco and stone dressings,
continuous slate roof with gabled dormer and moulded stacks to
the party wall, those to the gable ends are exterior.
STYLE: Tudor Gothic.
PLAN: No.12 to the left is L-plan with a rear wing, No.13 is
double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; No.12 is 3-window range, No.13
is 2-window range, all with label moulds over 2-light or
3-light cross windows, and the facade treated asymmetrically
with, from left, a canted bay, narrow gabled porch set at
angle with large canted and hipped-roofed bay and projecting
gable on right with castellated bay window.
No.12 is roughcast with label moulds to cross windows. A
square 3-storey gabled porch/stair turret in the angle has a
finial, pendant and a plain bargeboard over a single-light
second-floor window, a 2-light first-floor window and a
pointed-arched doorcase with head stops to the hoodmould. To
the ground-floor left is a later C19 rectangular bay canted at
the corners with a 2-light window and a hipped roof with a
cast-iron crest forming a window box to the 2-light window
above. Large canted bay to the right has a pointed hipped roof
with a window to each facet and a fretted bargeboard to a
2-light dormer.
To the right of No.13 is a stepped-forward forward-facing
gable with fretted bargeboards, a C20 attic window, a 3-light
timber-mullioned and transomed window to the first floor over
a similar window set in a castelled rectangular bay to the
ground floor. Gabled porch to the right return. The left-hand
range adjoining No.12, has a 2-light cross window to both
floors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the Courtenay Park development laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8649471059

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548585

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