Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE COURTENAY STREET
1012-1/13/28 (North West side)
16/07/49 No.1
Austins
(Formerly Listed as:
COURTENAY STREET
(North West side)
No.1
Globe Hotel)

GV II

Includes: Austins BANK STREET.
Hotel on a corner site, now a department store. 1842 by
Charles Fowler; remodelled c1990.
MATERIALS: painted stucco and stone, wide eaves cornice to
shallow-pitched slate roof, moulded and brick stacks to
returns and ridge.
PLAN: probably L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 5-window range to each of Bank and
Courtenay Street facades, to the right is the former 4-window
range ballroom, now shops to the ground floor. Banded
pilasters to the quoins; continuous second-floor sill band and
moulded sill string course to the first floor. Moulded
architraves with rounded arrises, stepped keystones and
panelled aprons to 3/3-pane sash windows to the entire second
floor; 6/1-pane sash windows to the first floor and
plate-glass sashes to the ground floor of the Bank Street
facade.
The first floor of the Courtenay Street facade has 6/6-pane
sash windows, those to the outer ends and centre are
tripartite. The sill string extends as a cornice around a
large prostyle portico supported by paired granite Tuscan
columns, a cast-iron railing forms a first-floor balcony. Shop
windows flanking the portico have been enlarged and cut into
the plinth, they have small panes to the tops.
INTERIOR: to the rear left is an open-well open-string
staircase with cast-iron balusters and wreathed mahogany
handrail and curtail step, the flight to the upper floor has
stick balusters.
HISTORY: formerly the Globe Hotel, and the principal element
in the 1840s development of this street, part of the
development for the Courtenays, Earls of Devon. A large hotel
of the pre-railway era in Devon, built to serve a busy route.
The former ballroom has rebuilt and not of special interest.
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 592).

Listing NGR: SX8584171240

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548560

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