St Anne's Almhouses

St Anne's Almhouses, Old Tiverton Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267540
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
St Anne's Almhouses
Statutory Address:
St Anne's Almhouses, Old Tiverton Road
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267540
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
St Anne's Almhouses
Statutory Address 1:
St Anne's Almhouses, Old Tiverton Road

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
St Anne's Almhouses, Old Tiverton Road

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

County:
Devon
District:
Exeter (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SX 92805 93283

Details

SX9393
871/12/352

OLD TIVERTON ROAD (east side)
St Anne's Almhouses

29-JAN-53

GV
II
Almshouses. C16; restored 1838; partly rebuilt 1907-9 by W.D Caröe. Heavitree stone; partly rebuilt in brick, stone and timber-framing. Clay plain tile roof with gable-ends, sprocketed eaves and pierced ridge tiles. Brick gable-end stacks with corbelled brick tops.

PLAN: L-shaped on plan range of almshouses, the west end rebuilt 1907-9 in free Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: one storey and attic. Ground floor brick with stone dressings, stone window frames, plinth and stringcourses, with timber-framing above; panelled doors with canopies on shaped brackets. C16 wing on left (east) with sashes on ground floor, C20 flat roof dormers above and chamfered arch doorway on left; on left (north) corner a stone arch linking almshouses to chapel [qv].

Rear (south) facing road, 2:1:1:2 bays, large two- and three-light stone mullion windows with transoms, and timber-framed gable at centre with brick stack. C16 stone range on right (east) with sashes, gable on right and stone stacks heightened in brick.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX9279893280

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
418400
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 432

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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