CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES

CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES, 5, 7, 9 AND 11, BURY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029305
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES, 5, 7, 9 AND 11, BURY STREET

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Date:: 2001-07-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029305
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES, 5, 7, 9 AND 11, BURY STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CALEB LOVEJOY ALMSHOUSES, 5, 7, 9 AND 11, BURY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 99421 49288

Details

SU 9949NW GUILDFORD BURY STREET (East Side)

7/10 Nos 5, 7, 9 & 11 13/1/72 (Caleb Lovejoy Almshouses) GV II Almshouses. Dated 1839 and paid for by Caleb Lovejoy bequest. Sandstone blocks with grey/brown brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. Symmetrical plan and elevation around a central two storey pavilion flanked by single storey wings with gable end bays. Decorative paired cross-ridge stacks,placed diagonally, on the wings; paired round, cut-brick and corbelled stacks to sides of centre gables. Double gable end pavilion to centre with pierced, wavy-edged bargeboards under spike and pendant finials. Leaded casement fenestration with label mouldings over & arched two-light intersecting tracery. One window on each floor of each gable to centre, one window in each linking range to end gables. Gabled porch to centre with C20 glazed and panelled doors in chamfered brick, surround, and with 4-centre arch over. Further doors in gabled porches on left and right hand return fronts.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.291.

Listing NGR: SU9942049290

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Legacy System number:: 288872
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 291

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.