Listed Building: EXMOOR HOUSE (1263901)

Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1648, 15, 66
Date assigned 04 August 1986
Date last amended
Date revoked
SS9127 DULVERTON CP BRIDGE STREET (North side) 15/66 Exmoor House - - II Union work house, now council offices. 1855, converted early C20. Random rubble local stone, dressed voussoirs and jambs, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, stone stacks gable ends. T-plan facing south, central block with flanking wings and long range at rear. To storeys, single storey wings, 3:7:3 bays, central 3 bays break forward slightly with open pediment, first floor 9-pane sash windows, ground floor 12-pane to central entrance, panelled door, square headed entrance end bay left blocked. Wooden lantern centre above pediment, shallow pyramid roof, arched louvred openings on each face. Nine bay rear wing with plastic sashes. The history of the Dulverton workhouse is told in Jack Hurley's "Rattle His Bones". Listing NGR: SS9121627959

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Grid reference Centred SS 91214 27966 (40m by 37m)
Map sheet SS92NW
Civil Parish DULVERTON, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

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