Rill House
Rill House, Brook Street, Slapton, TQ7 2PW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163828
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Rill House
- Statutory Address:
- Rill House, Brook Street, Slapton, TQ7 2PW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163828
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Rill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rill House, Brook Street, Slapton, TQ7 2PW
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:
- Rill House, Brook Street, Slapton, TQ7 2PW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Slapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 82012 45014
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 May 2023 to update the name and to reformat the text to current standards
SX8245
11/86
SLAPTON
BROOK STREET
Rill House
(Formerly listed as The Old Workhouse)
II
Workhouse, now private house. Dated 1822, converted into house probably in C20. Local slate rubble. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. Two lateral stacks at back, one truncated, the other with rendered and heightened shaft with yellow clay louvred pots.
Plan: rectangular plan, original internal arrangement uncertain but there appear to be two rooms with lateral fireplaces at the back and a central entrance at the front. In the C20 a large extension was built at the rear.
Exterior: three storeys. Symmetrical three window front the windows and doorway displaced slightly to the right. Small window openings, smaller at the top, with cambered stone arches, slate sills and late C19 or C20 two-light casements with glazing bars. The centre second floor window has keystone inscribed '1822 W.A.'. Central doorway with C20 glazed door and canopy. The right hand end abuts Brook Cottage and the left hand end has C20 glazed door on right, two-light casement to left and small C20 window in gable. At the rear a C20 two storey slate hung extension.
Interior: not inspected.
There are lateral fireplaces at the back of each room, one with cambered timber lintel, the other has a brick arch. Said to have been built from the rent of the curate's house, now Old Walls (qv).
Listing NGR: SX8200645017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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