Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE COURTENAY STREET
1012-1/13/29 (South East side)
06/06/72 Nos.2 AND 4
(Formerly Listed as:
COURTENAY STREET
(South East side)
Nos.2, 4 AND 6)

GV II

Two shops on a curved corner site. 1850-1860.
MATERIALS: painted stucco, slate roof.
PLAN: L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including attic storey; 9-window range.
Plate-glass sash windows with horns to the upper floors. Each
floor and the parapet are articulated by pilasters, a giant
order to the first and second floors, paired to the right
return. Entablatures and cornices to the panelled parapet and
second floor; eared architraves to the attic windows, blank
panel to the corner; flanking pilasters and continuous moulded
sill string to the second-floor windows, tripartite casement
to the corner; cornices over eared architraves and sill plinth
to the first-floor windows, tripartite sash to the corner;
banded rustication and triglyph frieze to the ground floor;
the windows (some of which are now doors, all C20) to No.2
have banded moulded architraves with rounded arrises and
keystones.
The entrance to No.4 and the former corner entrance to No.2
are flanked by painted granite fluted Doric columns.
No.4 to the left has canted bays to a late C19 set-back shop
front with decorative tops and bases to fluted colonettes and
moulded sills framing plate-glass windows. Below the sills are
ornamental cast-iron railings.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but known to be altered.
A striking commercial design, on a prominent corner site
opposite No.1 (qv) and part of the development of this area
for the Courtenays, Earls of Devon.

Listing NGR: SX8583071206

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548571

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