Description

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SX8245
11/86

SLAPTON
BROOK STREET
Rill House

(Formerly listed as The Old Workhouse)

II
Workhouse, now private house. Dated 1822, converted into house probably in C20. Local slate rubble. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. Two lateral stacks at back, one truncated, the other with rendered and heightened shaft with yellow clay louvred pots.

Plan: rectangular plan, original internal arrangement uncertain but there appear to be two rooms with lateral fireplaces at the back and a central entrance at the front. In the C20 a large extension was built at the rear.

Exterior: three storeys. Symmetrical three window front the windows and doorway displaced slightly to the right. Small window openings, smaller at the top, with cambered stone arches, slate sills and late C19 or C20 two-light casements with glazing bars. The centre second floor window has keystone inscribed '1822 W.A.'. Central doorway with C20 glazed door and canopy. The right hand end abuts Brook Cottage and the left hand end has C20 glazed door on right, two-light casement to left and small C20 window in gable. At the rear a C20 two storey slate hung extension.

Interior: not inspected.

There are lateral fireplaces at the back of each room, one with cambered timber lintel, the other has a brick arch. Said to have been built from the rent of the curate's house, now Old Walls (qv).

Listing NGR: SX8200645017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457391

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2