9-13 Devon Square (No 9 former Town Hall)
9-13 Devon Square, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257148
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 9-13 Devon Square (No 9 former Town Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- 9-13 Devon Square, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257148
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 9-13 Devon Square (No 9 former Town Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9-13 Devon Square, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HN
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:
- 9-13 Devon Square, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HN
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 86464 71227
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 June 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX8671
1012-1/9/35
NEWTON ABBOT
DEVON SQUARE (North side)
Nos.9-13 (Consecutive)
(Formerly listed as Nos.9-13 (Consecutive) including Newton Abbot Town Hall (No.9))
26/03/75
GV
II
Terrace of five houses. Mid C19. Italianate style.
MATERIALS: painted stucco, slate roofs with some moulded stacks to ends and party walls.
PLAN: double-depth with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: two storeys; symmetrical 15-window range with projecting gabled three-window outer bays and 2+2-window double-gabled centre. Wide bracketed eaves; some forward-facing gables with oculi which have four keystones to moulded archivolts; continuous first-floor sill band and plinth; banded quoins up to the first-floor band, rusticated quoins above; 2/2-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars.
No.9 to the left end (Newton Abbot Town Hall at time of listing, with C20 rear wing) and No.13 to the right are gabled three-window range with semicircular-arched windows in moulded archivolts to the first floor, those to the centre of each house with bracketed sills and panelled spandrels below segmental pediments. Flat-arched windows below have banded architraves, plain shallow pediments to the outer windows and cornices on consoles to the central windows.
Central entrance bays in returns have small gables rising from the eaves, moulded semicircular arched windows to the first-floor front and rusticated archivolts to the doors and fanlights. Central bays are flanked by stepped-forward panels below tall stacks each pierced by a small semicircular-arched window to both floors.
The central houses are spanned by a glazed verandah between the end houses supported by tapering cast-iron columns with moulded tops. They have half-glazed four-panel doors with semicircular fanlights; No.11 to the centre is five-window range, similar to Nos 9 and 13 in having two smaller gables each with two similar windows and oculi, flanking range with one flat-arched window in a moulded architrave. Similar windows to the ground floor.
Nos 10 and 12 flanking the central house, are two-window range with flat-arched windows in moulded architraves.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: Devon Square was the centre of a development carried
out for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the design of JW Rowell.
Listing NGR: SX8646471227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464189
- 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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