Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 EAST STREET
1012-1/9/66 (South side)
22/03/83 Newton Abbot Hospital, Templer House
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
(South side)
District Finance office at Newton
Abbot Hospital)

GV II

Office to Newton Abbot Hospital. Mid C19. Stucco, slate roof.
L-plan.
EXTERIOR: single-storey, 4-window range. Clasping pilasters to
all angles with moulded tops and plinths, plinth, wide eaves
with eaves band, continuous moulded impost band. The gabled 2
ranges to the right step forward, a blind oculus with a
moulded architrave and four keystones is over 6/6-pane sash
windows with radial glazing bars and Gibb's style blocking to
the archivolt, possibly Coade stone. Two 6/6-pane sash windows
to the left have stilted segmental arches. The pilasters to
the central flat-roofed enclosed porch extend above a cornice
and flank a parapet wall. A slightly pedimented projecting
hood on brackets is probably late C19 or C20. Segmental arch
over 6-panel door with 2 rows of 3 vertical panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as being altered, with
suspended ceilings.
Built as a detached boardroom block to the workhouse of
1836-9.

Listing NGR: SX8617271118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548414

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