Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 COURTENAY PARK ROAD
1012-1/9/22 (West side)
26/03/75 Nos.23 AND 24
and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Semi-detached pair of houses, No.23 now offices. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: painted roughcast with painted stone dressings,
slate roof with stacks to left gable end and party walls.
STYLE: Picturesque Tudor Gothic.
PLAN: symmetrical T-plan (each house is L-plan with a rear
wing).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; symmetrical 4-window range,
with projecting centre bays making 1:2:1 fenestration.
Rusticated quoins to the angles. 4 coped forward-facing gables
with moulded kneelers and stepped eaves bands. The central
ones, to stepped-forward bays, are paired over a single-light
attic window to the left and a 2/2-pane sash to the right.
First floor windows below are 2/2-pane sashes in canted bays
with hipped roofs. That to the left is an oriel over a 3-light
timber mullioned and transomed ground-floor window, that to
the right has a rectangular castellated bay with oriel above.
Set-back outer bays have central slightly-projecting gables,
offset to flank entrances.
No.24 to the left has a 2-light cross window to the first
floor over stepped weathering and a shallow pointed-arched
hoodmould with head stops and overlight to a C20 door.
No.23 is similar but the weathering and hoodmould have been
removed.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a shared rubblestone party garden wall
approx 3m high extends for approx 20m to the rear. Approx 80m
of rubblestone wall of varying heights flanks and fronts the
gardens. Both houses have octagonal Plymouth stone gate piers
with flat tops.
Part of the development of Courtenay Park, laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8655471240

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548594

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)