Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 EAST STREET
1012-1/9/67 (South side)
22/03/83 Newton Abbot Hospital, central
entrance block, attached walls &
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
(South side)
Outpatients, Ear, Nose and Throat
Clinic ...... Newton Abbot Hospital)

GV II

Carriage arch and flanking buildings to Newton Abbot Hospital.
Originally a workhouse range of 1836-1839 by Moffat and Scott.
MATERIALS: incised stucco with limestone rubble to the rear,
slate roofs hipped to the fronts.
PLAN: Three rectangular-plan blocks connected by corridors,
with pitched roof to left and mid C20 flat roof to right:
entrance flanked by 2-bay links to end blocks, both one storey
originally but that to west (right) heightened in late C19.
EXTERIOR: one- and 2 storeys; formerly symmetrical, 2 windows
to each block and to each corridor. Plinths, eaves bands and
impost string courses to the three blocks, which continue on
the returns. The central carriage entrance (glazed late C20)
has clasping pilasters supporting entablature and pediment
over tall semicircular arch with stepped voussoirs.
The rear, of rubblestone has a dentil cornice below the
pediment. The fronts of the flanking blocks have similar
plinths, pilasters, friezes and voussoirs to 2
semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash windows with radial glazing
bars and margin panes.
Right-hand block with a wider, similar block attached to the
rear, probably raised to 2 storeys later C19, does not have
margin panes to the first floor. Similar windows to the
returns. The linking corridors are articulated by wide
pilasters.
Single-storey flat-roofed additions to rear, with similar
pedimented feature to entry.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as being altered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the rear inner corners of the
outer blocks are thick rubblestone walls approx 4m high which
cant inwards to form a courtyard, meet tall square piers, turn
to the rear and slope downwards to approx 1m. The courtyard
now has C20 infill.
The main workhouse range has been demolished.

(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: 586).

Listing NGR: SX8613871110

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548443

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)