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Longmead and Attached Walls and Gate Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Newton Abbot, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5259 / 50°31'33"N

Longitude: -3.6038 / 3°36'13"W

OS Eastings: 286412

OS Northings: 70795

OS Grid: SX864707

Mapcode National: GBR QR.69RL

Mapcode Global: FRA 37BN.XGX

Plus Code: 9C2RG9GW+9F

Entry Name: Longmead and Attached Walls and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 22 March 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257199

English Heritage Legacy ID: 464156

ID on this website: 101257199

Location: Wolborough, 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

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Description



NEWTON ABBOT

SX8670 COURTENAY ROAD
1012-1/11/24 (West side)
22/03/83 No.1
Longmead and attached walls and gate
piers

II

Detached house. 1855. Painted stucco, slate roof with wide
bracketed eaves.
PLAN: L-plan, with rear wing forming an asymmetrical cross.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar; 2-window range. Plinth;
moulded first-floor sill string course, horned 6/6-pane sash
windows, those to the ground floor have cornices on consoles.
The ends of the cross are gabled, those to the front left, and
right return have moulded eared and shouldered archivolts to
the first-floor windows which have radial glazing bars;
ground-floor windows have cornices on consoles, that to the
front is tripartite with 6/9 panes, the sill possibly lowered
late C19 when a glazed porch with a hipped glass roof and
round-arched lights was installed.
INTERIOR: ground floor has panelled shutters, a white marble
fireplace flanked by semicircular-arched recesses to the
left-hand room, reeded architraves to 4-panel doors and stick
balusters to an open-string dogleg staircase. The high dado
rail in hall is late C19.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to rear is rubblestone wall
which surrounds the grounds. The north side is a retaining
wall approx 6m high and 60 long which diminishes to approx 2m
at gate piers with pyramidal caps and double C20 gates to the
east. The wall curves eastward for approx 20m then curves to
the south, approx 1m high and fronts the south side of the
garden for approx 100m where are similar gate piers to a
pedestrian entrance.
HISTORY: the deeds of 1855 state that the house was to be
built for a sum not less than ยป500.

Listing NGR: SX8641270795

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