Numbers 23 And 24 And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 COURTENAY PARK ROAD 1012-1/9/22 (West side) 26/03/75 Nos.23 AND 24 and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Semi-detached pair of houses, No.23 now offices. Mid C19. MATERIALS: painted roughcast with painted stone dressings, slate roof with stacks to left gable end and party walls. STYLE: Picturesque Tudor Gothic. PLAN: symmetrical T-plan (each house is L-plan with a rear wing). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; symmetrical 4-window range, with projecting centre bays making 1:2:1 fenestration. Rusticated quoins to the angles. 4 coped forward-facing gables with moulded kneelers and stepped eaves bands. The central ones, to stepped-forward bays, are paired over a single-light attic window to the left and a 2/2-pane sash to the right. First floor windows below are 2/2-pane sashes in canted bays with hipped roofs. That to the left is an oriel over a 3-light timber mullioned and transomed ground-floor window, that to the right has a rectangular castellated bay with oriel above. Set-back outer bays have central slightly-projecting gables, offset to flank entrances. No.24 to the left has a 2-light cross window to the first floor over stepped weathering and a shallow pointed-arched hoodmould with head stops and overlight to a C20 door. No.23 is similar but the weathering and hoodmould have been removed. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a shared rubblestone party garden wall approx 3m high extends for approx 20m to the rear. Approx 80m of rubblestone wall of varying heights flanks and fronts the gardens. Both houses have octagonal Plymouth stone gate piers with flat tops. Part of the development of Courtenay Park, laid out in 1854.

Listing NGR: SX8655471240