No 26 (Teign View Valley) and No 28 (Hillside) Including Garden Walls and Doorway in Front of No 26

A pair of adjoining villas, Teign View Villa and Hillside, were built in 1852. They are colourwashed and stuccoed, likely over a stone base, with rusticated quoins and hipped slate roofs, featuring rendered stacks. The architectural style is Italianate.

The villas are set back from the roadside, with identical plans. Teign View Villa has a main block, one room wide and two rooms deep, plus a separately-roofed service wing to the rear. The entrance is located in a small, set-back block at the right end, leading into an axial passage between the two front rooms. A staircase is situated against the party wall shared with Hillside. The plan of Hillside is presumably identical but reversed.

Each villa has three storeys to the main block and features a prominent two-storey canted bay with a hipped roof, fitted with original plate glass timber sash windows. There are also three grouped round-headed windows on the second floor, each with a keystone and sashes. The set-back porch blocks feature steps leading to panelled front doors, with narrow two-pane sashes on the first floor and within the round-headed openings on the second floor.

During the inspection, only the interior of Teign View Villa was examined, but it is believed that Hillside may be equally well-preserved. The interior is very complete, dating from the mid-19th century and of an ornate character, with decorated plaster cornices to the principal rooms at the front. Ground and first floor rooms feature elaborate egg-and-dart moulding. A mid-19th century marble fireplace with an original iron insert remains in a ground floor room. A good dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, a wreathed handrail, and intact joinery throughout contributes to the interior’s character.

A tall garden wall, located in front of Teign View Villa, includes a doorway from the street into the garden, and is part of the listed structure.

The villas are a pair of intact mid-19th century villas; Teign View Villa retains a very complete interior, and Hillside may also be similarly intact. They make an important contribution to the fine streetscape.