57 And 61, Halcyon Road

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE HALCYON ROAD 1012-1/13/77 (North side) 24/02/93 Nos.57 AND 61 (Formerly Listed as: HALCYON ROAD (North side) Nos.57, 59 AND 61)

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Pair of attached houses. Built as one dwelling in the early C17, extended to left in C18, heightened and turned into four dwellings in early C19. MATERIALS: rendered cob and rubble; gabled slate roofs; two rear lateral stacks to right, that to the left is set in a cross-gabled bay; inserted early C19 stack marks the left end of the C17 house, with large C18 end stack to left-hand extension. PLAN: 3-unit plan with cross-passage set between two heated rooms on right, room to right (with inserted stack to cob end wall) probably unheated; C18 extension makes 4-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the 2-window range to right of No.61 retaining the original C17 eaves height. 6-window front has 3 mid/late C20 doors except a C19 plank door to No.61, which also has C19 horizontal sliding sashes (a notable survival) flanking door. INTERIOR: C18 and C19 plank doors. C18 extension to left has A-frame trusses with pegged collars (rafters and purlins are C20). C17 range has 3 collar trusses with through purlins (splay-scarfed at principals) and halved and notched apexes with diagonally-set ridges (purlins and rafters are mostly C20); No.61 has bressummer over open fireplace to left partly blocked by C19 staircase; chamfered beam adjoins No.59 to left; open fire with chamfered bressummer to room on right which also has chamfered beam.

Listing NGR: SX8583371440