Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 EAST STREET
1012-1/9/61 (North side)
22/03/83 Nos.109-115 (Odd)
and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Group of 4 almshouses. 1845.
MATERIALS: squared Devon limestone rubble with larger blocks
to quoins, kneelers and gable parapets; painted freestone
dressings; slate roof with cream brick stacks to rear.
STYLE: Picturesque Tudor.
PLAN: U-plan with 2 forward outer gabled bays.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 1:3:1 fenestration. The gabled ranges of
Nos 109 to the left and 115 to the right have loopholes to the
apexes, flat arches over 2-light leaded casement windows with
Tudor arch and sunk spandrels to each light. Those to ground
floor are taller with crenellated lintels. Entrances are in
the returns. The central houses have single-light windows
similar to first-floor outer ones flanking a hoodmould and
double plank doors below a blind window with inscription.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to outer corners are rubblestone
walls approx 1m high and 1m long and paired gabled gate piers
with roll-moulded ridges and recessed triangular panels to
front.
HISTORY: first built in 1640 in Torquay Road endowed by Lady
Lucy Reynell wife of the owner of Forde House, Torquay Road,
(qv) who intended them to accommodate the widows, "the relicts
of preaching ministers, left poor, without a house of their
own". The original building was demolished in 1790 and rebuilt
in East Street nearer to the town centre.
(Jones R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington 1979: 121 AND
122).

Listing NGR: SX8615171146

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548455

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