Description

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton
848-1/6/317 (East side)
12/02/52 Slee's Almshouses

GV II

Almshouses founded in 1610 by George Slee for six single
women. Probably renovated c1840s, C20 renovations. Stone
rubble and timber; slate roof gabled at the right end; end
stack with brick shaft.
PLAN: original plan was six single rooms, 3 on each floor and
in 1790 were described as having galleries in front "and the
lower as well as the upper rooms floored with timber. Behind
are small herb gardens but no chapel" (Dunsford). The gallery
is now glazed on the first floor.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. 2 segmental
headed doorways on the front have probably renewed plank and
cover strip front doors. Pairs of segmental-headed windows
between the doors and at the outer ends of the front are
glazed with 2-light casements with square leaded panes. A
projection at the right end also has a plank and cover strip
front door.
The gallery frontal (renewed) is timber with plain sunk panels
and glazed above with eight continuous 2-light windows with
Tudor arched heads with square leaded panes and flat-faced
mullions with roll-mouldings.
HISTORY: in 1842 and 1847 the almshouses were described as in
a dilapidated state. A chest tomb to George Slee survives in
the parish church of St Peter between the chancel and the
north chancel chapel.
(Dunsford: Historical Memoirs of the Town of Tiverton: 1790-:
341; Harding Lt Col FGS: The History of Tiverton: 1847-: 80).

Listing NGR: SS9539712556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664770

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)