Paiges Almshouses
PAIGES ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385106
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Paiges Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- PAIGES ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385106
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Paiges Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIGES ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- PAIGES ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55861 33181
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558331SE CHURCH LANE
684-1/9/96 (East side)
19/01/51 Paige's Almshouses
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH LANE
(East side)
Nos.1 & 2)
GV II*
Range of 4 almshouses. 1656, C20 additions to left and rear.
Founded by Elizabeth Paige. Painted brick front roughly in
English bond; small painted stone rubble section at left-hand
end. Slated roof. Originally 4 dwellings for 8 inmates.
2 storeys. Main building has 4 windows per storey plus 4
doorways. Section to left has one upper-storey window.
Doorways have double ovolo-moulded, square-headed wood frames
with elaborately carved stops; ribbed and studded plank doors,
The second from left a near-replica of the original. Slated
wood canopy above each door. Windows (restored) are of 4
lights in ground storey, 3 above; ovolo-moulded wood mullions
with diamond-shaped leaded panes, each window having a
casement with ornate iron hinges. Window in section to left
has a 2-light wood casement with pegged joists; probably late
C17 or later. Left gable wall has 2 mullioned windows in the
style of those in the main range.
These almshouses make an important contribution to the C17
character of Church Lane, being adjacent to Horwood's
Almshouses (qv).
Listing NGR: SS5586133181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485568
- 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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