AUSTINS

AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257162
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: AUSTINS
Statutory Address:: AUSTINS, 1, COURTENAY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257162
Date first listed:: 15-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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 464161
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 592

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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.