Seymour House Tower House
9, 10 AND 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257183
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Seymour House Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- 9, 10 AND 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257183
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Seymour House Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, 10 AND 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SEYMOUR HOUSE, 9, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- TOWER HOUSE, 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
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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.
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, 10 AND 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SEYMOUR HOUSE, 9, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOUSE, 11, COURTENAY PARK ROAD
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 86519 71033
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8671 COURTENAY PARK ROAD 1012-1/9/16 (West side) 26/03/75 Nos.9, 10 AND 11 Seymour House (No.9) and Tower House (No.11)
GV II
Terrace of three houses. Mid C19. MATERIALS: painted stucco, shallow-pitched roof with stack to rear of No.9 to the left. STYLE: Italianate. PLAN: double-depth plans. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Nos 9 and 10, 3 storeys to the tower of No.11 to the right; each house is 2-window range. Wides eaves and platbands, banded pilasters to the ground floors and rusticated quoins to upper floors. No.9 has a projecting gabled front right wing, to the first floor is a semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash window with a raised surround, keystone, imposts and bracketed sill over an 8/8-pane sash in a raised surround with a cornice on fluted consoles. The doorcase in the angle of the set-back entrance range to the left has pilasters with moulded caps and a shallow plain pediment over a 4-panel door and 2-pane overlight. To the left is a 4/4-pane sash window and above is a 6/6-pane sash. No.10 to the centre has two plain 6/6-pane sash windows to the first floor and similar window with fluted consoles to cornice, door and doorcase to No.9 on the ground floor. No.11 to has a 3-storey belvedere tower to the left with wide bracketed eaves to a shallow hipped roof. To the front and right return it has pilasters with moulded caps and bracketed sills to triple windows, semicircular-arched with keystones to the second floor, under a shallow plain pediment to the first floor and under a cornice on fluted consoles to the ground floor. Windows to the upper floors of the right return are blind. The mullions have been removed to the ground-floor front. The set-back right 2-storey wing has a C20 enclosed porch over the door. All the windows to No.11 are C20 metal-framed. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of an Italianate terrace, asymmetrically composed with a belvedere in the Osborne manner. Part of the Courtenay Park development, laid out in 1854.
Listing NGR: SX8651971033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464139
- 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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