Devon Villa And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 QUEEN STREET 1012-1/9/109 (South side) 22/03/83 No.98 Devon Villa and attached walls and gate piers

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House. Mid C19. Painted stucco and freestone dressings, hipped slate roof with wide eaves and moulded stacks to the returns. PLAN: Double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plain eaves and first-floor bands; banded pilasters to the ground-floor angles, rusticated quoins to first floor; horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows with bracketed sills; plinth. The higher gabled central entrance bay, surmounted by good cornice, is stepped slightly forward with a small circular window to the apex over paired semicircular-arched first-floor windows and doorcase with a moulded archivolt. Ranges to the sides are canted slightly back with tripartite windows, those to first floor at eaves level with moulded caps to pilasters; ground-floor windows have banded pilasters and plain pediments. Left return has a moulded architrave to a 6/6-pane sash window on the first floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the house is fronted by roll-edged plinths to former railings which curve in to meet a flight of 7 steps flanked by C20 railings to the door. To the left are two pyramidal-capped gate piers to a carriage entrance, to the right is one pier to a service entrance. HISTORY: the house is in an outlying part of the Courtenay Park development, laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8642571327