Description

MINEHEAD

SS9744 MANOR ROAD, Alcombe
900-1/5/137 (South East side)
28/10/76 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive)
Grove Place, Spiritualist Church,
attached wall, and outbuilding to
rear
(Formerly Listed as:
MANOR ROAD, Alcombe
(South East side)
Nos.1-9 (Consecutive)
Grove Place)

GV II

9 cottages and a chapel. Early/mid C19. Painted rubblestone,
continuous slate roof (mostly tarred) with brick stacks to
party walls and gable ends. Double-depth plans, 3 to the left
and 6 to the right, form a right angle with a chapel to the
angle.
2 storeys; 9-window range. Each cottage has 2-light windows,
those with small glazing-bar panes being C19, and a C20 door
in a lean-to porch. The chapel has a crested slate roof, a
small semicircular-arched window above a gabled porch with a
cross to the apex, and a semi-elliptical gauged stone arch to
C20 doors. INTERIORS not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the front left of the
cottages a short brick wall with semicircular arch over steps
to the right. Attached to the rear of the roadside block is a
C19 outbuilding of snecked rubblestone with a pantile roof and
a small stack to the left. It has a timber lintel to wide
planked doors and a single-light window to the right; above
are two doors to a loading bay.

Listing NGR: SS9757844907

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568891

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version