44, Devon Square

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE 1012-1/9/41 (North side) No.44

GV II

House, now a surgery. Mid C19. Painted stucco, slate roof with moulded stacks to left and rear. L-plan with rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plain eaves band, continuous first-floor sill band and plinth. 6/6-pane sash windows to the first floor, that to the gabled projecting left-hand range is semicircular arched with radial glazing bars above a late C19 canted bay with a swept lead roof, dentil cornice, panelled mullions and horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows. The angle to the set-back right-hand ranges is infilled with a C20 lean-to entrance. INTERIOR: moulded architraves to original 4-panel doors, roll-moulded cornice and dado rail to the room to the ground-floor left, open string staircase with turned balusters, wreath handrail and curtail step, half-glazed margin-paned door with cut-glass stars to coloured flash glass corners. The room to the front right has C19 ornamental pelmets, possibly of compo. Included as part of a complete square, the centre of the development carried for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs of JW Rowell.

Listing NGR: SX8635471307