The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, 20, 22, 24 AND 26, RADWAY HILL, BISHOPSTEIGNTON, TQ14 9QN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147690
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 20, 22, 24 AND 26, RADWAY HILL, BISHOPSTEIGNTON, TQ14 9QN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147690
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 20, 22, 24 AND 26, RADWAY HILL, BISHOPSTEIGNTON, TQ14 9QN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 20, 22, 24 AND 26, RADWAY HILL, BISHOPSTEIGNTON, TQ14 9QN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91104 73758
Details
SX 9073-9173
13/65
BISHOPSTEIGNTON
RADWAY HILL,
Nos 20, 22, 24 and 26 (The Almshouses)
GV
II
Almshouses. 1861, patron the Revd. W.R. Ogle, on the site of five old cottages (Cleland). Random rubble red sandstone with polychromatic brick dressings; slate roof with deep eaves, gabled at ends with crested ridge tiles; stone stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: Main block facing west on to Radway Hill with short projections to left and right, the centre recessed with a first floor balcony. The right hand projection is the front of a crosswing giving an approximate overall L plan. C20 rear left additions.
Exterior: Very intact, with crank-headed windows with timber glazing bars and brick relieving arches. Two storeys. Symmetrical five bay front, the outer bays project and are gabled to the front, the centre bay with a gable to the front and curved scissor-braced bargeboards, three bay first floor balcony to the centre three bays with a slate roof supported on timber posts with shaped struts. Crank-headed doorway, below balcony, in the first bay from the right, similar blocked doorway first bay from the left, similar doorway into return of left end bay. The right return has a gabled dormer in the centre, with a crank-headed three-light window, similar window below and two small one-light arched windows at the left, to the left of the projecting stone stack. The rear elevation is rendered with C20 additions. Stone rubble wall in front of the almshouses included in the listing. An unspoiled almshouse building on a corner site.
Cleland, W.D. (ed), Bishopsteignton, South Devon, A Short History and Guide (1930),
pp. 16.
Listing NGR: SX9110473758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cleland, W D, Bishopsteignton South Devon: A Short History and Guide, (1930), 16
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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