Devon Villa And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 QUEEN STREET 1012-1/9/109 (South side) 22/03/83 No.98 Devon Villa and attached walls and gate piers

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House. Mid C19. Painted stucco and freestone dressings, hipped slate roof with wide eaves and moulded stacks to the returns. PLAN: Double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plain eaves and first-floor bands; banded pilasters to the ground-floor angles, rusticated quoins to first floor; horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows with bracketed sills; plinth. The higher gabled central entrance bay, surmounted by good cornice, is stepped slightly forward with a small circular window to the apex over paired semicircular-arched first-floor windows and doorcase with a moulded archivolt. Ranges to the sides are canted slightly back with tripartite windows, those to first floor at eaves level with moulded caps to pilasters; ground-floor windows have banded pilasters and plain pediments. Left return has a moulded architrave to a 6/6-pane sash window on the first floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the house is fronted by roll-edged plinths to former railings which curve in to meet a flight of 7 steps flanked by C20 railings to the door. To the left are two pyramidal-capped gate piers to a carriage entrance, to the right is one pier to a service entrance. HISTORY: the house is in an outlying part of the Courtenay Park development, laid out in 1854.





Listing NGR: SX8642571327

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1290 IOE Records taken by Keith Mackenzie; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Keith Mackenzie. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project