5-8 FREE COTTAGES

5-8 FREE COTTAGES, MOUNT DINHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380695
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: 5-8 FREE COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 5-8 FREE COTTAGES, MOUNT DINHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380695
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: 5-8 FREE COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 5-8 FREE COTTAGES, MOUNT DINHAM

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:: 5-8 FREE COTTAGES, MOUNT DINHAM

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:: SX9145692689

Details

SX 99 SW 871/24/10077 23-JUN-00

MOUNT DINHAM (East side) 5-8 Free Cottages

GV II

Block of 4 cottages, part of a group of free cottages providing 42 units for the elderly and funded by William Gibbs. 1861 (datestone) with later alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings; slate roofs; stacks with rendered chimney shafts; cast iron rainwater goods. Tudor style. Plan: Part of a complex built on the bluff overlooking the river Exe and grouped with a school and church, also funded by Gibbs. Like the other blocks on the site, this consists of 4 units with paired front doors in the centre and entrances on the returns of the block for the outer units. Single-storey service blocks have been added at the rear. Exterior: 2 storeys and single storey. Symmetrical 4-bay front, the 2-storey outer bays gabled to the front and broken forward. Deep eaves and verges on brackets. Original openings are painted stone with quoined jambs. 2 and 3-light transomed mullioned windows with hoodmoulds & C20 glazing. Central gabled porch with stone Tudor arched doorway; plank front doors; similar porches to the returns. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. Historical Note: Mount Dinham was purchased by John Dinham to prevent its being used as a fairground site. Gibbs of Tyntesfield in Somerset, was a guano merchant and banker. He was born in Exeter and an effigy of him survives in St Michael's Church (qv) next to the free cottages. This is part of an important Victorian complex of philanthropic buildings, designed together.

Listing NGR: SX9145692689

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Legacy System number:: 481019
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.