Numbers 6-10 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 6-10, Den Crescent, Teignmouth, is a terrace of five houses built in 1825 as part of a planned layout by Andrew Patey of Exeter. The buildings were originally hotels, previously known as the Sandringham Hotel, Harmony House, Regency Hotel, and Portland Hotel. They are constructed of painted stucco with a freestone parapet coping, a continuous cornice, a first-floor band, an impost band to the ground floor, and sills. The roofs are slate with brick and rendered stacks to gable ends and party walls, some of which have been truncated.

The houses are three storeys high with attic rooms and basements, each with a three-window front. Numbers 6-9 retain their original features, with segmental-arched two-light dormers, six-pane sash windows to the second floor, six-over-nine-pane sashes and cast-iron balconies to the first floor, and semicircular-arched six-over-six-pane windows with radial glazing bars in recessed panels to the ground floor. The doorcases have matching arches with vermiculated voussoirs, mask keystones, panelled soffits and reveals, and fanlights over six-panel doors. Number 8 has decorative fanlights, and the inner door has margin panes. Number 9 has a 20th-century porch on the left side. Number 10 was altered in the late 19th century; it features moulded architraves to plate-glass windows, a hipped slate roof and cast-iron trellises to the first-floor balcony, and a 20th-century projecting hipped-roofed porch on the right. A 20th-century upper floor replaces the original attic. The rear elevation of numbers 7 and 8 features six-over-six-pane sash windows and full-height curved bays next to stair turrets. The interiors were not inspected.

The front areas of numbers 6 to 9 are fronted by recessed square-section railings with cast-iron flambeau heads. The terrace is part of a larger planned layout by Patey, forming a crescent facing the sea. The left return has a late 19th-century single-storey rectangular porch with a modillion cornice and three arches, while the three-window range right return features semicircular-arched windows, incised key pattern pilasters, chamfered rustication to the ground floor, raised surrounds, bracketed sills, and an enclosed projecting porch with recessed panels supporting a simple entablature, slightly pedimented to front and sides with antefixae to the corners. Basement windows have six-over-six-pane sash windows and planked doors with three-pane overlights.