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Latitude: 50.5295 / 50°31'46"N
Longitude: -3.6122 / 3°36'43"W
OS Eastings: 285830
OS Northings: 71206
OS Grid: SX858712
Mapcode National: GBR QR.61M0
Mapcode Global: FRA 37BN.LKS
Plus Code: 9C2RG9HQ+Q4
Entry Name: 2 and 4, Courtenay Street
Listing Date: 6 June 1972
Last Amended: 11 December 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1257173
English Heritage Legacy ID: 464172
ID on this website: 101257173
Location: Newton Abbot, Teignbridge, Devon, TQ12
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge
Civil Parish: Newton Abbot
Built-Up Area: Newton Abbot
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Wolborough St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Retail building
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
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