Description

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9472 SOUTH VIEW
25-1/7/199 (North side)
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached walls and gate piers
and railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. c1870s. Render over red Flemish-bond
brick, continuous slate roof with moulded stacks, formerly
with modillion cornices now only to No.2, to left end and
party walls. Double-depth plans.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and semi-basements; each house
is 4-window range including 3 windows to each canted bay. Sash
windows with 2 horizontal panes to each sash in moulded
architraves with keystones; a moulded sill string course to
the 2nd floor; cornices to 1st-floor windows of No.1 and bays
of Nos 2 and 3; rusticated quoins to the angles.
Nos 1 and 4 have large canted bays with cast-iron balconettes
to all but the basement windows and hipped roofs to the outer
ends (that to No.4 is altered).
Nos 2 and 3 have gabled stepped-forward outer ranges with
flat-roofed canted bays up to the 1st floor, flanked by
set-back ranges with porches and doors. Steps up to 6-panel
doors with semicircular overlights which are set in slightly
pedimented projecting porches under one semicircular-arched
window to both upper floors.
Nos 2 and 3, paired at the centre, have a shared late C19
canopy to the porch; semicircular-arched windows to upper
floors, paired to the attics, tripartite to the 2nd floor and
single light to each side of the bays; segmental-arched
windows to ground floor and basement.
Nos 1 and 4 have segmental-arched windows except to the 1st
floor. The rendered external stack to the left return in
Northumberland Place has painted brick panels with concave
corners to each stage.
Early photographs show the terrace to be of brick with
freestone and rendered details.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front gardens were formerly enclosed
by railings. The low rendered brick plinths front the site and
ramp up to the doors. The rendered piers have plinths, exposed
brick panels with concave corners, cornices and shallow
pyramidal caps. To No.1 and between Nos 2 and 3 are cast-iron
railings to the doorsteps.
This terrace occupies a prominent position between important

early/mid C19 seaside terraces (Powderham Terrace, The Den
(qv) and the terraces by Patey on Den Crescent (qv)).

Listing NGR: SX9401872668

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682877

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