1A Courtenay Park

1A, Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257214
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
1A Courtenay Park
Statutory Address:
1A, Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257214
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:
1A Courtenay Park
Statutory Address 1:
1A, Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1A, Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2HD

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 86631 70996

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

SX8670
1012-1/11/12

NEWTON ABBOT
COURTENAY PARK
No 1A

(Formerly Listed as: COURTENAY PARK ROAD (South side) No.1A Driving Test Centre, previously Listed as: COURTENAY PARK ROAD Nos.1 AND 1A)

26/03/75

GV
II

House, driving test centre at time of listing. Mid C19. Painted stucco, wide bracketed eaves to a hipped slate roof with a moulded ridge stack to left of centre. L-plan with rear wing.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; 1:2-window range. Plinth; banded quoins to the ground floor platband rusticated quoins to the first floor; moulded architraves to tripartite 4/4-pane sash windows without horns, those to the first floor segmental-headed with bracketed sills, those to the ground-floor front with cornices on consoles. The range to the left is set back with similar windows in the left return.

The two-window main range to the right steps forward under a shared hipped roof; two full-height gabled bays step further forward with rusticated quoins to all the angles; tripartite windows, those to the first floor under segmental arches. A plain door opening is set between the gabled bays.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Part of the Courtenay Park development, laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8663170996

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
464128
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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