Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 EAST STREET
1012-1/9/65 (North side)
21/06/77 Nos.133-147 (Odd)
and attached walls and gatepiers

GV II

Symmetrical terrace of eight almshouses. 1840.
MATERIALS: painted stucco, continuous slate roof with moulded
and rendered stacks to party walls and gable ends.
STYLE: Picturesque Tudor Gothic.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: one- and two-storeys with attics; each house is
one-window range. Two houses to centre, Nos 139 and 141, have
ornamental scroll-fretted bargeboard and pendants to
stepped-forward 2-storey gabled bays with label moulds and
timber mullions and transoms to 3-light casement windows.
Paired entrances are in a set-back range between them which
has a small gabled half dormer.
The three houses to either side have fretted bargeboards to
gabled half-dormers with moulded corbels to oriel windows.
2-light casement windows with 3 panes to each leaf, those to
first floor have pointed arches with a lozenge-shaped pane to
apex. Ground floor has a corrugated-iron roof to a verandah
supported by slender iron columns.
No.145 retains an original door with two rows of three
vertical panes. Rear one-storey service blocks except 2
storeys to centre, all with casement windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high rubblestone walls attached to the
front corners step down for approx 3m to meet piers with
stepped pyramidal caps. A low plinth to former railings fronts
the site with 2 pairs of similar gate piers to each side.
HISTORY: in 1576 Robert Haynam endowed properties in East
Street "for the better maintenance and relief of poor people".
These properties included almshouses which were rebuilt in
1840.
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 593; Jones
R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington: 1979-).

Listing NGR: SX8623371139

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548430

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