Liberal Club

The Liberal Club is a purpose-built club house located on Market Street in Newton Abbot, dating from 1913. It features incised stucco with painted freestone dressings and has a hipped slate roof with a moulded stack at the rear of the left side. Designed in the Italianate style, resembling a Venetian Palazzo, the building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a symmetrical five-window range.

The exterior is characterized by an elaborate returned modillion cornice with an egg-and-dart frieze, and moulded lintel strings on each floor. The second floor has plate-glass sash windows, while the first floor features cross windows. The terminal windows on the first floor are adorned with cartouche-scroll friezes and cornices created by the stepped-forward lintel string. The piano nobile has three cross windows behind a triple arcade supported by paired Ionic columns on a stone balustrade, with the center window stepped forward on brackets. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, with a hood on large moulded brackets above double three-panel doors and a three-pane overlight to the left. The separate office to the right has a tripartite plate-glass sash window and a half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight. The interior has not been inspected, but the facade is noted for being distinguished yet remarkably conservative for its time.