Description

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9472 DEN CRESCENT 25-1/7/136 (West side) 30/06/49 Nos.6-10 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: DEN CRESCENT Nos.6-10 Sandringham Hotel, Harmony House, Regency Hotel, Portland Hotel)

GV II

Terrace of 5 Houses, now hotels. 1825. Part of a planned layout by Andrew Patey of Exeter. Painted stucco; freestone parapet coping, continuous cornice, 1st-floor band, impost band to the ground floor and sills; slate roofs with brick and rendered stacks, some truncated, to gable ends and party walls. Double-depth plans with 3-storey rear stair lobbies and other rear additions. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and basements; each house is 3-window range. Nos 6-9 are almost unaltered, they each have a segmental-arched 2-light dormer, 6/6-pane sash windows to the 2nd floor, 6/9-pane sashes and similar cast-iron balconies to the 1st floor and semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sashes with radial glazing bars to the ground floor in recessed panels. The doorcases have similar arches with vermiculated voussoirs, mask keystones, panelled soffits and reveals and fanlight over 6-panel doors. No.8 has decorative fanlights, the inner door also has margin panes. No.9 has a large C20 porch to the left. No.10 was altered late C19. It has moulded architraves to plate-glass windows, the 1st-floor balcony has a hipped slate roof and cast-iron trellises and a C20 large projecting hipped-roofed porch to the right. C20 upper floor replaces the attic. The left return with similar windows has a late C19 single-storey rectangular porch with a modillion cornice and 3 arches. 6/6-pane sash windows to the basements, planked doors with 3-pane overlights. The 3-window range right return has semicircular-arched windows flanking the stack above the cornice, incised key pattern pilasters to the upper floors, chamfered rustication to the ground floor, raised surrounds and bracketed sills to 6/6-pane sash windows, blind to the left, and an enclosed projecting porch with recessed panels to the pilasters supporting a simple entablature slightly pedimented to front and sides with antefixae to the corners.

The rears of Nos 7 and 8 have 6/6-pane sash windows and full-height curved bays beside stair turrets. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the areas of Nos 6 to 9 are fronted by recessed sides to square-section railings with cast-iron flambeau heads. This terrace forms part of an overall planned layout by Patey, forming a crescent facing the sea. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 799).

Listing NGR: SX9409272780

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings