Number 2 and Attached Wall
NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, HIGHWEEK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256929
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, HIGHWEEK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256929
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, HIGHWEEK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, HIGHWEEK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85734 71337
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8571SE HIGHWEEK STREET 1012-1/13/85 (North East side) 16/07/49 No.2 and attached wall
GV II
House, now offices. Mid/late C18 with substantial late C19 extension to the right. MATERIALS: red Flemish-bond brick with burnt headers, painted freestone dressings and parapet coping, Plymouth stone plinth, slate roof with 2 large brick ridge stacks. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to the C18 block, 5 windows to the whole facade. Fine rubbed brick detail to flat arches and brick platband. Central bay is stepped slightly forward (with a pediment as part of the parapet) over a moulded forward frame to a plate-glass sash window and Georgian-style doorcase with and open dentil pediment on engaged Ionic columns, fine cobweb fanlight, raised and fielded panels to the reveals, soffit and 8-panel door. This is flanked by full-height wide segmental bays with curved frames to C19 plate-glass windows. Painted iron bands secure the parapet wall. Range to the left, rendered to the second floor, has double plank doors and a Venetian window with plate-glass sashes to the first floor. Late C19 range to the right has similar but harder brickwork to the ground floor and a forward-facing timber-framed gable with a tall oriel window on brackets and curved glass to the corner panes. The C19 right return is in similar style. INTERIOR: fine c1770s detail including swag and paterae frieze to the hall and a plain C18 staircase with scroll tread ends. The room to the ground-floor left has a frieze with maidens and swags and a C18 wooden fireplace with a reclining female in the roundel. The room to the ground-floor right has a C18 fireplace with pilasters, swags and relief of a chariot drawn by lions, and a pilastered alcove. At the top of the staircase are fluted Composite half columns with swag decoration. The first-floor right-hand room has a C18 fireplace with pilasters and central panel with boar hunt. Floral frieze. 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a brick wall with burnt headers and stone plinth and capping attached to the right extends for approx 20m along the street to meet rusticated gate piers approx 2m high.
Listing NGR: SX8573471337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464393
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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