Numbers 133-147 And Attached Walls And Gatepiers

A symmetrical terrace of eight almshouses built in 1840, located on East Street, Newton Abbot. The buildings are constructed of painted stucco with a continuous slate roof, featuring moulded and rendered stacks to the party walls and gable ends. The style is Picturesque Tudor Gothic.

The terrace is one and two storeys high, with attics, and each house has a single-window range. The two central houses, numbers 139 and 141, have ornamental scroll-fretted bargeboards and pendants to stepped-forward, two-storey gabled bays. These bays feature label moulds and timber mullion and transom windows with three panes to each leaf, with pointed arches and a lozenge-shaped pane at the apex. A set-back range between numbers 139 and 141 contains paired entrances, with a small gabled half-dormer above. The three houses either side have fretted bargeboards to gabled half-dormers supporting oriel windows. The windows are mostly 2-light casements with three panes, with pointed arches to the first-floor windows incorporating a lozenge-shaped pane. The ground floor possesses a corrugated-iron roof covering a verandah supported by slender iron columns. No. 145 retains an original door with two rows of three vertical panes. The rear of the terrace has one-storey service blocks, except for a two-storey section in the centre, all with casement windows. The interior of the almshouses has not been inspected.

Attached to the front corners are high rubble stone walls, which step down approximately 3 metres to meet piers with stepped pyramidal caps. A low plinth marks the former location of railings, and two pairs of similar gate piers stand on either side.

The site has a history of charitable provision; 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.