Slee's Almshouses
SLEE'S ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Slee's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- SLEE'S ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Slee's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLEE'S ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER STREET
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.
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:
- SLEE'S ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95397 12556
Details
TIVERTON
SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/317 (East side)
12/02/52 Slee's Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses founded in 1610 by George Slee for six single
women. Probably renovated c1840s, C20 renovations. Stone
rubble and timber; slate roof gabled at the right end; end
stack with brick shaft.
PLAN: original plan was six single rooms, 3 on each floor and
in 1790 were described as having galleries in front "and the
lower as well as the upper rooms floored with timber. Behind
are small herb gardens but no chapel" (Dunsford). The gallery
is now glazed on the first floor.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. 2 segmental
headed doorways on the front have probably renewed plank and
cover strip front doors. Pairs of segmental-headed windows
between the doors and at the outer ends of the front are
glazed with 2-light casements with square leaded panes. A
projection at the right end also has a plank and cover strip
front door.
The gallery frontal (renewed) is timber with plain sunk panels
and glazed above with eight continuous 2-light windows with
Tudor arched heads with square leaded panes and flat-faced
mullions with roll-mouldings.
HISTORY: in 1842 and 1847 the almshouses were described as in
a dilapidated state. A chest tomb to George Slee survives in
the parish church of St Peter between the chancel and the
north chancel chapel.
(Dunsford: Historical Memoirs of the Town of Tiverton: 1790-:
341; Harding Lt Col FGS: The History of Tiverton: 1847-: 80).
Listing NGR: SS9539712556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harding, F G S, The History of Tiverton, (1847), 80
Dunsford, , Historical Memoirs of the Town and Parish of Tiverton, (1790), 341
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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