Thomas Luny House, Attached Walls And Gateway

Thomas Luny House, along with its attached walls and gateway, is a house located on Teign Street in Teignmouth, dating from the early 19th century. The building features painted stucco and a slate roof, which includes a 20th-century central dormer and rendered stacks at the gable ends. It has a double depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window range. The windows have moulded architraves and bracketed sills.

A prominent enclosed porch at the front has a moulded semi-elliptical arch, panelled pilasters, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet. The porch features semicircular recesses on the sides and similar recesses with moulded arches and bracketed sills on the inside. Above the porch is a six-over-six pane sash window, flanked by two eight-over-eight pane sashes. The ground floor windows are similar but have four vertical panes in each sash.

Inside, the house has been recently restored. An original semi-elliptical arch with reeded pilasters remains in the hall, and there is a 19th-century swept mahogany handrail over 20th-century balusters on the stairs. The rooms to the right are separated by 19th-century eight-panel double doors within a moulded architrave, and the front room features semicircular-arched recesses beside a 20th-century fireplace.

The property includes a subsidiary feature: a coped rubblestone wall approximately 5 meters high, attached to the front left corner and extending northward for about 30 meters, where it fronts the garden for roughly 12 meters. The street side of the wall is painted roughcast. Large piers with plinths and cornices support a shallow semi-elliptical arch leading to the carriage entrance, which has a panelled soffit and vermiculated rustication on a large keystone. The gateway was listed separately on July 29, 1983.

Historically, the house was built for Thomas Luny, a marine artist, and his tomb is located to the north of the Church of St James on Exeter Street.