14-24, DEVON SQUARE

14-24, DEVON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257151
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
14-24, DEVON SQUARE
Statutory Address:
14-24, DEVON SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257151
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
14-24, DEVON SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
14-24, DEVON SQUARE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
14-24, DEVON SQUARE

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 86417 71140

Details

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE 1012-1/9/36 (South side) 16/07/49 Nos.14-24 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of eleven houses. Mid C19. MATERIALS: painted stucco with rusticated quoins, continuous slate roof with wide bracketed eaves cornice and moulded stacks to party walls. STYLE: Italianate. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 21-window range of 1:8:3:8:1 fenestration. Continuous second-floor sill band, first-floor band and plinth. Ranges to the centre and ends are stepped forward; the returns have projecting 3-storey gabled porch wings. The one-window range terminal bays have horizonal glazing bars to 3-light 2/2-pane sash windows with a semicircular arch to each light to the second floor, first-floor windows are tripartite with moulded pediments on consoles and cast-iron balconies. Similar glazing to ground-floor windows which have rusticated bands to the jambs under plain pediments. Entrances are in the returns which have similar single-light windows; rusticated jambs and voussoirs to semicircular arches and fanlights over 2-vertical-panelled doors. The four houses to each side of the centre are 2-window range articulated by pilasters with moulded capitals. Windows to the second floor have roll-moulded arrisses and segmental arches to 3/6-pane sashes. Those to the first floor have horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sashes, bracketed sills, moulded aprons and architraves with cornices supported by consoles. Tripartite ground-floor windows have banded rusticated jambs and plain shallow pediments. Doorcases are similar to those of the returns. No.19 to the centre, is a pedimented 3-window range with a balcony to the first floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. The most imposing "palace front" in Devon Square, the centre of the development carried out for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs of JW Rowell. No.19 Devon Square was first listed on 22.3.83.



Listing NGR: SX8641771140

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Legacy System number:
464192
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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