46-62, QUEEN STREET

This is a terrace of eight shops, built in the mid-19th century in Newton Abbot. The terrace, located on Queen Street, extends to the rear into Fairfield Terrace, with a corner property at number 62. The building is constructed of painted brick with painted ashlar dressings, topped by a slate roof. The rear wings are of 20th-century roughcast render. The plan is double-depth, with later rear additions.

The three-storey terrace is articulated by flat stucco quoins. Both front facades are punctuated by pilasters that are panelled at the parapet level, and feature a coped and panelled parapet, a wide cornice, a plain frieze, a second-floor platband, and a first-floor sill string course that acts as a cornice to the shop fronts. The windows are 2/2-pane sashes with raised surrounds, bracketed sills, rounded upper corners to flat arches, and varying numbers of lights (one, two, or three). First-floor windows have cornices on consoles. Some banded rustication is visible on the ground floor, particularly at number 62 and the left return, which features a semicircular and a segmental arch with marked rusticated voussoirs towards the rear.

Number 58 has an exceptionally fine shop front dating to around 1900, originally a chemist's. It contains a glazed door with an ornamental sand-blasted panel displaying the words "PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY DISPENSED", a low carved raised-and-fielded panel, curved and carved top, lintel and pediment to the overlight. Plate glass windows are topped by turned colonettes and elaborate overlights with cut-glass star details in the circular panes, with those flanking the door curved inward. The interior of number 58 retains a mosaic floor, a moulded cornice, and a complete series of original fittings including pedimented display cabinets. Number 54 also has a late-19th-century shop front and entrance with a mosaic floor, the original name having been removed. The interior of this property features full-height tongue-and-groove panelling and a panelled ceiling.

The terrace stands in a prominent position close to Church House, and represents a substantially complete example of its type.