Sunpark

This house, named Sunpark, was built in the 1930s to the designs of Melville H. Aubin, and is an excellent example of the Modern Movement architectural style. It is located on Park Avenue in Higher Brixham.

The house is primarily brick, painted white, with the windows and rainwater goods originally green, now painted blue. It features a flat roof with railings and a chimney stack with two tall rendered shafts connected by a horizontal bar. The layout includes an entrance hall, a staircase in a turret to the left, a living room and dining room to the right in a lower-roofed block with bowed front and rear, and a kitchen to the left, positioned behind the staircase with a shallow projecting stack. The stair turret extends upwards to provide access to a small room on top of the sun roof.

The exterior features a very complete design. The two-storey front has three bays, with staggered blocks. It has iron windows with glazing bars, and ribbon wrap-around windows to the bowed front on the right side. A tall stair turret is located on the left, with three windows. A lower-roofed porch block is slightly set back in the centre, featuring a projecting porch canopy supported by a post on the right, which also forms a balcony to the first-floor room above. The original oak front door remains. The right return side has paired slit windows on each floor. The sun room on the roof has large windows on three sides.

The interior remains largely unaltered, with updates limited to light switches, light fittings, and wall decoration. Original features include plywood joinery, original door furniture, original tiled chimneypieces, parquet floors, and the original kitchen, complete with a sink, fitted shelving, and cupboards. The original bathroom retains green wall tiles and patterned flooring. Sunpark represents an almost perfectly preserved example of a Modern Movement house.