THE ALMSHOUSES

THE ALMSHOUSES, 1,2,3 AND 4

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097044
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1976
List Entry Name:: THE ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: THE ALMSHOUSES, 1,2,3 AND 4

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Date:: 2001-12-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097044
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1976
List Entry Name:: THE ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: THE ALMSHOUSES, 1,2,3 AND 4

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE ALMSHOUSES, 1,2,3 AND 4

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Exminster
National Grid Reference:: SX 94486 87478

Details

EXMINSTER EXMINSTER SX 98 NW

4/52 Nos 1-4 The Almshouses 8.6.76 GV II

Almshouses. Described at "built about twenty years ago" in 1879 (Whites) with substantial late C20 conversion. Dressed Heavitree brecchia; slate roof; axial and end stacks with brick shafts. Single depth plan with a central passageway and 2 2-room plan houses to either side. The C20 conversion has involved blocking the front doorways to either side of the central passageway. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4 window front with 4 gables to the front. Central doorway to passage in centre, blocked doorways to left and right. 4 first floor 2-light C20 casements with diamond leaded panes, similar 3-light ground floor windows. The Almshouses are a prominent feature in the centre of Exminster. Whites Devonshire (1879)

Listing NGR: SX9448687478

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Legacy System number:: 85469
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Whites Directory' in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1879)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.