Devon Villa And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

Devon Villa is a house built in the mid-19th century, located on Queen Street in Newton Abbot. It features painted stucco with freestone dressings and has a hipped slate roof with wide eaves and moulded stacks on the returns. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window arrangement. The exterior includes plain eaves and first-floor bands, banded pilasters at the ground-floor corners, and rusticated quoins on the first floor. The windows are 2/2-pane sash with horizontal glazing bars and bracketed sills, set above a plinth.

The central entrance bay is higher and slightly forward, topped with a cornice and a small circular window at the apex. It features paired semicircular-arched windows on the first floor and a doorcase with a moulded archivolt. The side ranges are canted back slightly and have tripartite windows, with first-floor windows at eaves level featuring moulded caps on the pilasters. The ground-floor windows have banded pilasters and plain pediments. The left return has a moulded architrave around a 6/6-pane sash window on the first floor.

In front of the house, there are roll-edged plinths that once supported railings, which curve to meet a flight of seven steps flanked by 20th-century railings leading to the door. To the left, there are two pyramidal-capped gate piers for a carriage entrance, and to the right, there is one pier for a service entrance. The house is part of the Courtenay Park development, which was laid out in 1854. The interior has not been inspected.