Lethbridge's and Davey's Almshouses
LETHBRIDGE'S AND DAVEY'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, PARR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380643
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Lethbridge's and Davey's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- LETHBRIDGE'S AND DAVEY'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, PARR STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380643
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Lethbridge's and Davey's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- LETHBRIDGE'S AND DAVEY'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, PARR STREET
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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.
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:
- LETHBRIDGE'S AND DAVEY'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, PARR STREET
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 92848 93122
Details
SX 9293 PARR STREET
871/12/10106 (Northwest side)
23-JUN-00 1-6
Lethbridge's and Davey's Almshouses
II
Row of 6 almshouses. c.1870. Red brick with stone dressings, end wall rendered; slate roofs, gabled at ends; stacks with clustered shafts & octagonal pots; cast iron rainwater goods.
Plan: Original plan of each unit one room wide, later service blocks added to rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys. The whole range has a symmetrical 6-window front. 3 projecting gabled porches with coped gables and 4-centred stone arched outer doorways with square-headed hoodmoulds with facetted spandrels. Blank shields to gables. Rectangular windows glazed with diamond leaded panes to returns of porches. Each porch contains 2 plank front doors in 4 centred arches with strap hinges with Gothic decoration. Ground floor at Nos. 1,2,5 and 6 have bay windows with hipped slate roofs containing 2-light mullioned windows with trefoil-headed lights. Other ground floor windows are similar but flush with transoms and square-headed hoodmoulds. First floor windows under coped gables are 2-light stone mullioned with trefoil-headed lights in a square-headed architrave.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but tenant at No.5 report that chimney pieces remain but are now blocked.
An externally complete group in Tudor Gothic style.
Listing NGR: SX9284893122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480966
- 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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