Numbers 37, 38 And 39 And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 DEVON SQUARE 1012-1/9/40 (West side) 22/03/83 Nos.37, 38 AND 39 and attached walls and gatepiers

GV II

Terrace of three houses stepped downhill from No.37 to the left. Mid C19. Painted stucco, slate roofs with rendered stacks to the right of each house, that to No.39 has a moulded cornice. Double-depth plans with rear wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basements; each house is 2-window range with a tripartite window to the ground-floor right and a C20 door to the left. Moulded architraves; first-floor sill band which continues to the returns; bracketed sills to 2/2-pane sash windows with horns and horizontal glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: each house has a rendered wall attached to the party wall extending forward to a pair of gate piers approx 1.5m high with painted pyramidal caps. That to No.37 is plain, Nos 38 and 39 have rock stone coping. C20 front walls. Devon Square was the centre of the development carried out for the Courtenays c1840-60 to the designs of JW Rowell. A similar but more modest design than Nos 1-8 (cons) (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8633071286