Tiverton : Slee's Almshouses
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Tiverton : Slee's Almshouses
Image: © Lewis Clarke Taken: 31 May 2013
Almshouses founded in 1610 by George Slee for six single women. Probably renovated c1840s, C20 renovations. Stone rubble and timber; slate roof gabled at the right end; end stack with brick shaft. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. 2 segmental headed doorways on the front have probably renewed plank and cover strip front doors. Pairs of segmental-headed windows between the doors and at the outer ends of the front are glazed with 2-light casements with square leaded panes. A projection at the right end also has a plank and cover strip front door. The gallery frontal (renewed) is timber with plain sunk panels and glazed above with eight continuous 2-light windows with Tudor arched heads with square leaded panes and flat-faced mullions with roll-mouldings. In 1842 and 1847 the almshouses were described as in a dilapidated state. A chest tomb to George Slee survives in the parish church of St Peter between the chancel and the north chancel chapel.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.902736
Longitude
-3.48907