Numbers 133-147 and Attached Walls and Gatepiers
NUMBERS 133-147 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 133-147, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257011
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 133-147 and Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 133-147 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 133-147, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257011
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 133-147 and Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 133-147 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 133-147, EAST STREET
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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:
- NUMBERS 133-147 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 133-147, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86233 71139
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8671 EAST STREET 1012-1/9/65 (North side) 21/06/77 Nos.133-147 (Odd) and attached walls and gatepiers
GV II
Symmetrical terrace of eight almshouses. 1840. MATERIALS: painted stucco, continuous slate roof with moulded and rendered stacks to party walls and gable ends. STYLE: Picturesque Tudor Gothic. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: one- and two-storeys with attics; each house is one-window range. Two houses to centre, Nos 139 and 141, have ornamental scroll-fretted bargeboard and pendants to stepped-forward 2-storey gabled bays with label moulds and timber mullions and transoms to 3-light casement windows. Paired entrances are in a set-back range between them which has a small gabled half dormer. The three houses to either side have fretted bargeboards to gabled half-dormers with moulded corbels to oriel windows. 2-light casement windows with 3 panes to each leaf, those to first floor have pointed arches with a lozenge-shaped pane to apex. Ground floor has a corrugated-iron roof to a verandah supported by slender iron columns. No.145 retains an original door with two rows of three vertical panes. Rear one-storey service blocks except 2 storeys to centre, all with casement windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high rubblestone walls attached to the front corners step down for approx 3m to meet piers with stepped pyramidal caps. A low plinth to former railings fronts the site with 2 pairs of similar gate piers to each side. HISTORY: in 1576 Robert Haynam endowed properties in East Street "for the better maintenance and relief of poor people". These properties included almshouses which were rebuilt in 1840. (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 593; Jones R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington: 1979-).
Listing NGR: SX8623371139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, R, A Book of Newton Abbot, (1979)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 593
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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