THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES

THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES, BISHOPS TAWTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317905
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES, BISHOPS TAWTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317905
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: THE LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES, BISHOPS TAWTON ROAD

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 LAW MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES, BISHOPS TAWTON ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Tawton
National Grid Reference:: SS 56511 30403

Details

SS 53 SE 7/34

BISHOPS TAWTON BISHOPS TAWTON ROAD (east side) Bishops Tawton The Law Memorial Almshouses

II

Almshouses, comprising 12 flats. 1885. Squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with 3 large axial stacks between each twin gable with crenellated caps recessed panelled sides to shafts, corbelled Lombard-style at top. 2 storeys. Series of 3 twin gabled projections with coped gables, cavetto moulded kneelers, fleur-de-lis finials and shaped rafter ends. Double arched entrances to the recesses between Each gable has 3-light stone mullion window with drip moulds above transomed mullion windows of 3 segmental arched lights with crenellated drip moulds. Moulded stone string course to each pair of gables, that to centre runs up as segmental arched hoodmould over central plaque recording erection of almshouses "in loving memory of Thomas Shephard Law and of William Henry Law, His Son. By the sorrowing wife and mother". Small cinquefoil pierced stone inset near apex of each gable. 2 recessed bays have porches with twin pointed arched in chromatic stonework with hoodmoulds, supported on central slender marble column and corbelled out to each side. Segmental arched inner doorways with chamfered and stopped architraves. Low stone balustrade to porches above each pair of arches with crenellated parapet. Tiled lean-to roof to entrance porch at left end, single storey Board Room at right end with pointed arched doorway and 2-light window with central colonette, corbelled hoodmould and decorative lattice work to leaded cames.

Listing NGR: SS5651130403

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Legacy System number:: 98512
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.