Lower Almshouses Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533 PILTON STREET, Pilton 684-1/6/340 (West side) 31/12/73 Nos.1-6 Lower Almshouses including front garden wall and gate piers

GV II

Row of 6 almshouses. Dated 1860. Stone rubble. Slated roof. 4 stone rubble chimneys with moulded cornices; good pots of several different types, some spiked. A single range lying at right-angles to street; the almshouses arranged in 3 pairs, each pair with a shared door. In front of them a garden with curtilage wall and gate-piers along the street frontage. One storey with garret Tudor-style. 6-window range. Doorways have chamfered surrounds with pyramid stops and cranked heads; double plank doors. Ground-storey windows of 3 lights with chamfered stone mullions; relieving arches. Garret windows take the form of dormer gables with 2-light mullioned window matching those below; moulded barge-boards with collar beams, the inner edges ot the barge-boards above this level cut to form a trefoil. Lights in all the windows 3-paned with metal glazing bars. Gable wall to street has projecting chimney-breast, stepped on left side. Attached to it on a pair of corbels is a stone plaque inscribed: 'THESE ALMSHOUSES WERE REBUILT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CHARITY BY THE UNDERMENTIONED FEOFFEES. A.D. 1860.' 6 names follow, including the Revd Wm C Hall. To the right of the chimney-breast in each storey is a 3-paned single-light window with chamfered surround, that in ground storey with relieving arch. Gable finished with stone coping; kneelers at the front. INTERIORS not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low stone rubble garden wall with chamfered coping. Square gate piers with pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SS5566433901