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ID:SDV23526
Title:Report.
Originator:Weddell, P. J.
Date:
Summary:Workhouse (minchinton). Vis=unknown (pre 1974) doe. Redhills hospital, built 1836-7.3 storey building on wheel plan. Dark red stone, with stone window architraves. Slate roofs etc (doe). Vis=by kempthorne, 1837, using stone from pocombe quarry. Hexagonal plan with identical internal arrangements on e (men's) + w (women's) sides. Day rooms, dining room, workshops, kitchen, etc on ground floor; dormitories on first floor. Chapel added in 1847. Main entrance block housed administration + committee rooms. Plan changed very little between 1876 and wwii. Small additions to inner ranges, mainly nw quadrant. Internal divisions in yards later removed. Building taken over by lha and latterly used as maternity hospital, then geriatric hospital. Vis=victoria block constructed as a separate hospital block, 1854. Stone. H-plan, 2 storeys with segregated blocks and separate entrances on ground floor. W (male) doorway has been blocked up. On ground floor were wards + surgical rooms, with bath + wc for each wing. Bedrooms on first floor. Vis=albert block constructed 1896-7 as extension to victoria block. Brick, english bond. Symmetrical with central (e-facing) projecting block flanked by the wards. These had separate entrances either side of central block. Originally linked to victoria block only by a covered way, with glazed double-pitched roof. A modern 2-storey block has been inserted between the two. Vis=further small extensions to n + s corners. Vis=mortuary immediately n of albert block built between 1888 and 1905. Single storey brick structure with flat lead roof. Stained glass window inserted in w wall. Small brick outbuilding at right-angles to w. Vis=1993 proposal to demolish n + nw quadrants of workhouse and outer n range of buildings, including site of laundry, ward house, mill house + workshop; also removal of external structures of victoria + albert blocks and demolition of the 1897 linking corridor and mortuary + adjoining buildings (weddell).

Associated Monuments (73)

MDV20125ARTEFACT SCATTER in the Parish of Knowstone (Monument)
MDV24967ARTEFACT SCATTER in the Parish of Lifton (Monument)
MDV15896Artefact Scatter to the Northeast of Bowhayes Farm, Newton Poppleford and Harpford (Monument)
MDV16382Artefact Scatter to the Southeast of Bowhayes Farm, Newton Poppleford and Harpford (Monument)
MDV15895Artefact Scatter to the West of The Old Vicarage, Tipton St John (Monument)
MDV20130Bank on Rackenford Moor, Rackenford (Monument)
MDV9298BARROW in the Parish of Chudleigh (Monument)
MDV20224BARROW in the Parish of Knowstone (Monument)
MDV20218BARROW in the Parish of Knowstone (Monument)
MDV20232BARROW in the Parish of Stoodleigh (Monument)
MDV24542BRIDGE in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV20039BRIDGE in the Parish of Loxbeare, Washfield (Monument)
MDV24907BRIDGE in the Parish of Thrushelton (Monument)
MDV29779BUILDING in the Parish of Frithelstock (Monument)
MDV11228CHAPEL in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV13832CLOISTER in the Parish of Frithelstock (Monument)
MDV24892CORN DITCH in the Parish of Stowford (Monument)
MDV24910DITCH in the Parish of Thrushelton (Monument)
MDV12446ENCLOSURE in the Parish of Buckland Filleigh (Monument)
MDV20219ENCLOSURE in the Parish of Knowstone (Monument)
MDV20041ENCLOSURE in the Parish of Washfield (Monument)
MDV24802FARMSTEAD in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV24801FARMSTEAD in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV20108FARMSTEAD in the Parish of Bishop's Nympton (Monument)
MDV18985FARMSTEAD in the Parish of Thrushelton (Monument)
MDV24674Field Name West of Hillcrest Farm (Monument)
MDV6561FINDSPOT in the Parish of Dartmoor Forest (Find Spot)
MDV24544Flint Findspot to the Northeast of Lower Abbey Farm, Axminster (Find Spot)
MDV19643FORD in the Parish of Loxbeare (Monument)
MDV24554HOLLOW WAY in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV24552HOLLOW WAY in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV20034HOLLOW WAY in the Parish of Rackenford (Monument)
MDV20115Hollow way south of Week Wood, Rose Ash (Monument)
MDV20047LEAT in the Parish of Washfield (Monument)
MDV13503Loughter Mills (Monument)
MDV20111LYNCHET in the Parish of Bishop's Nympton (Monument)
MDV59640LYNCHET in the Parish of Kingsteignton (Monument)
MDV20221LYNCHET in the Parish of Rose Ash (Monument)
MDV24914LYNCHET in the Parish of Thrushelton (Monument)
MDV24911LYNCHET in the Parish of Thrushelton (Monument)
MDV20234LYNCHET in the Parish of Washfield (Monument)
MDV24897Lynchets south of Staddon, Broadwoodwidger (Monument)
MDV1344Mill at Cowlins, Washfield (Monument)
MDV21126MILL in the Parish of Bickleigh (SH) (Monument)
MDV24866MOUND in the Parish of Lifton (Monument)
MDV20222PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Knowstone, Rackenford (Monument)
MDV20029PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Loxbeare (Monument)
MDV20032PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Loxbeare (Monument)
MDV20043PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Loxbeare, Stoodleigh (Monument)
MDV20044PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Loxbeare, Stoodleigh (Monument)
MDV20230PARISH BOUNDARY in the Parish of Stoodleigh, Washfield (Monument)
MDV20235PUMPING STATION in the Parish of Washfield (Monument)
MDV20116Quarry adjacent to West Kimmings, Rose Ash (Monument)
MDV24676QUARRY in the Parish of Axminster (Monument)
MDV20112QUARRY in the Parish of Bishop's Nympton (Monument)
MDV20119RIDGE AND FURROW in the Parish of Bishop's Nympton (Monument)
MDV20127RIDGE AND FURROW in the Parish of Rackenford (Monument)
MDV20129RIDGE AND FURROW in the Parish of Rackenford (Monument)
MDV9299RING CAIRN in the Parish of Chudleigh (Monument)
MDV20128Road at Windmill Field, Rackenford (Monument)
MDV20035Road in Beaple's Moor, Knowstone (Monument)
MDV24875ROAD in the Parish of Lifton (Monument)
MDV20042ROAD in the Parish of Loxbeare, Washfield (Monument)
MDV20036ROAD in the Parish of Washfield (Monument)
MDV24868SHRUNKEN VILLAGE in the Parish of Lifton (Monument)
MDV20117SLUICE GATE in the Parish of Rose Ash (Monument)
MDV2705Smallacombe (Building)
MDV17271St Mary's Priory (Monument)
MDV12330STANDING STONE in the Parish of Knowstone (Monument)
MDV20110WEIR in the Parish of Bishop's Nympton (Monument)
MDV14075WINDMILL in the Parish of Rackenford (Monument)
MDV37610Woods, Sparkwell, Shaughprior (Monument)
MDV18086WORKHOUSE in the Parish of Exeter (Building)