57 And 61, Halcyon Road

57 and 61 Halcyon Road is a pair of attached houses located in Newton Abbot. Originally built as one dwelling in the early 17th century, the building was extended to the left in the 18th century and later heightened and converted into four separate dwellings in the early 19th century. The structure features rendered cob and rubble with gabled slate roofs. There are two rear lateral stacks on the right, while the left stack is set in a cross-gabled bay. An early 19th-century stack marks the left end of the original 17th-century house, with a large 18th-century end stack on the left-hand extension.

The house has a three-unit plan with a cross-passage between two heated rooms on the right, and the room on the right, which has an inserted stack in the cob end wall, is likely unheated. The 18th-century extension creates a four-unit plan. The exterior is two storeys high, with a six-window front that includes three mid to late 20th-century doors, except for a 19th-century plank door to No. 61, which also features 19th-century horizontal sliding sashes, a notable survival.

Inside, there are 18th and 19th-century plank doors. The 18th-century extension on the left has A-frame trusses with pegged collars, while the rafters and purlins are from the 20th century. The 17th-century section has three collar trusses with through purlins, which are splay-scarfed at the principals, and halved and notched apexes with diagonally-set ridges; the purlins and rafters here are mostly from the 20th century. No. 61 has a bressummer over an open fireplace on the left, which is partly blocked by a 19th-century staircase. There is a chamfered beam adjoining No. 59 to the left, and an open fire with a chamfered bressummer in the room on the right, which also features a chamfered beam.