The Old Poor House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Poor House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-rotunda-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/29 The Old Poor House - - II House. Late C17. Cob and rubble core, smooth-rendered and colourwashed, straw- thatched roof; gable end stacks with C20 brick shafts. Plan: symmetrical 2-room plan, central lobby with straight-flight staircase, room to each side of similar size, gable-end fireplaces. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical front of 3-windows, 2-light C19 casements with close-set glazing bars. Central-door opening, plain C19 plank door. Interior: each fireplace to ground floor with a chamfered wooden bressumer, that to left with bread oven and evidence of adjacent former staircase, present stair C19. Roof: part of the original roof survives, 2 trusses with lapped collars and ridges, remainder renewed. First floor stated to have been used as the Village Institute in the C19. Prominent roadside position.
Listing NGR: SS7705613428
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