Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE EAST STREET
1012-1/13/49 (South side)
21/06/77 Nos.16 AND 18
The Jolly Abbot public house

GV II

Inn now public house. C17, altered and extended C19, and C20.
MATERIALS: painted render over a timber frame with rubblestone
rear wings, double-pitched slate roof with forward-facing
gables, brick stack to the left and 3 brick ridge stacks to
the 2-storey rear left wing.
PLAN: 2-unit plan with rear wings, that to the left lengthened
in C19.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 3-window range. Upper floors,
jettied over the ground floor, have C19 moulded forward frames
and horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows, one to
each attic and to the first floor of the left-hand gable and
two to the first floor of the right-hand gable. Ground floor
has early C20 fixed windows with leaded lights.
The left rear wing has 3 brick stacks and late C19 windows,
the right return has C20 windows, the rear right wing has
hipped roofs to a 2-storey and an added single-storey range.
INTERIOR: the original 4-bay arched collar-beam roof structure
with mortices for threaded purlins remains under a C19
higher-pitched gabled cladding. A large room to the first
floor of the rear left wing has high coved ceiling, exposed
studding to party wall of main block and panelled shutters.
Ground floor is altered except for one chamfered beam to the
rear left. C19 laundry equipment remains in the rear wing.
HISTORY: the first meeting of the Wolborough Iron Mining
Company is said to have taken place here about 1872. Augustus
Smith, a great benefactor, identified the brown rock of
Firestone Hill between Wolborough and Askerswell as haematite
or iron ore. The Wolborough Iron Mine subsequently produced
1,240 tons of haematite during the years 1872-73.
(Jones R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington: 1979-: 31).

Listing NGR: SX8589271142

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548491

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