Austins
AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257162
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Austins
- Statutory Address:
- AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257162
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Austins
- Statutory Address 1:
- AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- AUSTINS, BANK 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:
- AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- AUSTINS, BANK 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 85841 71240
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8571SE COURTENAY STREET
1012-1/13/28 (North West side)
16/07/49 No.1
Austins
(Formerly Listed as:
COURTENAY STREET
(North West side)
No.1
Globe Hotel)
GV II
Includes: Austins BANK STREET.
Hotel on a corner site, now a department store. 1842 by
Charles Fowler; remodelled c1990.
MATERIALS: painted stucco and stone, wide eaves cornice to
shallow-pitched slate roof, moulded and brick stacks to
returns and ridge.
PLAN: probably L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 5-window range to each of Bank and
Courtenay Street facades, to the right is the former 4-window
range ballroom, now shops to the ground floor. Banded
pilasters to the quoins; continuous second-floor sill band and
moulded sill string course to the first floor. Moulded
architraves with rounded arrises, stepped keystones and
panelled aprons to 3/3-pane sash windows to the entire second
floor; 6/1-pane sash windows to the first floor and
plate-glass sashes to the ground floor of the Bank Street
facade.
The first floor of the Courtenay Street facade has 6/6-pane
sash windows, those to the outer ends and centre are
tripartite. The sill string extends as a cornice around a
large prostyle portico supported by paired granite Tuscan
columns, a cast-iron railing forms a first-floor balcony. Shop
windows flanking the portico have been enlarged and cut into
the plinth, they have small panes to the tops.
INTERIOR: to the rear left is an open-well open-string
staircase with cast-iron balusters and wreathed mahogany
handrail and curtail step, the flight to the upper floor has
stick balusters.
HISTORY: formerly the Globe Hotel, and the principal element
in the 1840s development of this street, part of the
development for the Courtenays, Earls of Devon. A large hotel
of the pre-railway era in Devon, built to serve a busy route.
The former ballroom has rebuilt and not of special interest.
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 592).
Listing NGR: SX8584171240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 592
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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