Lower Almshouses Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
LOWER ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385307
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Almshouses Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PILTON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385307
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Almshouses Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PILTON 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:
- LOWER ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PILTON STREET
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 55663 33901
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533 PILTON STREET, Pilton
684-1/6/340 (West side)
31/12/73 Nos.1-6 Lower Almshouses including
front garden wall and gate piers
GV II
Row of 6 almshouses. Dated 1860. Stone rubble. Slated roof. 4
stone rubble chimneys with moulded cornices; good pots of
several different types, some spiked.
A single range lying at right-angles to street; the almshouses
arranged in 3 pairs, each pair with a shared door. In front of
them a garden with curtilage wall and gate-piers along the
street frontage.
One storey with garret Tudor-style. 6-window range. Doorways
have chamfered surrounds with pyramid stops and cranked heads;
double plank doors. Ground-storey windows of 3 lights with
chamfered stone mullions; relieving arches. Garret windows
take the form of dormer gables with 2-light mullioned window
matching those below; moulded barge-boards with collar beams,
the inner edges ot the barge-boards above this level cut to
form a trefoil. Lights in all the windows 3-paned with metal
glazing bars.
Gable wall to street has projecting chimney-breast, stepped on
left side. Attached to it on a pair of corbels is a stone
plaque inscribed: 'THESE ALMSHOUSES WERE REBUILT AT THE
EXPENSE OF THE CHARITY BY THE UNDERMENTIONED FEOFFEES. A.D.
1860.' 6 names follow, including the Revd Wm C Hall. To the
right of the chimney-breast in each storey is a 3-paned
single-light window with chamfered surround, that in ground
storey with relieving arch. Gable finished with stone coping;
kneelers at the front. INTERIORS not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low stone rubble garden wall with
chamfered coping. Square gate piers with pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: SS5566433901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485769
- 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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