9-13 Devon Square (No 9 former Town Hall)

A mid-19th century terrace of five houses, built in the Italianate style. The houses are constructed of painted stucco with slate roofs, featuring moulded stacks to the ends and party walls. The plan is double-depth, with a rear wing to the original layout.

The exterior presents a symmetrical 15-window facade with projecting gabled three-window outer bays and a double-gabled central section with two windows each. The building features wide bracketed eaves, forward-facing gables with oculi (round windows) each having four keystones to moulded archivolts, a continuous first-floor sill band, and a plinth. Banded quoins extend up to the first-floor band, with rusticated quoins above. The windows are sash windows with horizontal glazing bars.

Number 9, originally the Town Hall (and retaining a 20th-century rear wing), and number 13, have gabled three-window ranges with semicircular-arched windows to the first floor, each with bracketed sills and panelled spandrels below segmental pediments. Flat-arched windows on the ground floor have banded architraves; the outer windows have plain, shallow pediments, while the central windows have cornices supported on consoles.

The central entrance bays have small gables rising from the eaves. Moulded semicircular arched windows are located on the first floor front, while the doors and fanlights have rusticated archivolts. Flanking these bays are stepped-forward panels below tall stacks, each pierced by a small semicircular-arched window to both floors.

A glazed verandah spans numbers 10 and 12, connecting them to the end houses, supported by tapering cast-iron columns with moulded tops. The doors are half-glazed four-panel doors, with semicircular fanlights. Number 11, the central house, is a five-window range with two smaller gables, each with two similar windows and oculi, flanking a range with one flat-arched window in a moulded architrave. Similar windows are present on the ground floor. Numbers 10 and 12 are two-window ranges with flat-arched windows in moulded architraves.

The interior was not inspected.

Devon Square was created as part of a development undertaken for the Courtenays between approximately 1840 and 1860, designed by JW Rowell.