60 And 62, Ashburton Road

This is a pair of houses, numbers 60 and 62 Ashburton Road in Newton Abbot, dating from the early 19th century. Number 60 has a long rear wing, number 62. The front of number 60 is painted render, with wide eaves to a hipped slate roof and stacks along the ridge. Number 62 has a pitched slate roof. The plan is double-depth with the rear wing canting back to the left.

The exterior of number 60 presents a symmetrical three-window facade. It features an incised pilaster, a plinth, and 8/8-pane sash windows with some crown glass. Ground floor windows have moulded architraves. A doorcase has engaged painted timber Doric columns, an entablature, and a pediment, with panelled reveals and a soffit. The front door is six-panelled with an elaborately glazed overlight. The left return has three similar sash windows to the first floor, above a later 19th-century conservatory. The conservatory is canted to the front corner with a hipped glazed roof and vertical panes to the upper half; it has double half-glazed doors and is accessed from the house by late 19th-century French windows, replacing a former window. Number 62 has 8/8-pane sash windows and two small two-light casement windows to the ground floor, on the left.

Inside the houses, features include six-panel doors to the ground floor and an open-string dogleg staircase between the rooms on the left.