Numbers 1-4 Almshouses (Including Attached Walling and Gateway on Covert Road Frontage)
NUMBERS 1-4 ALMSHOUSES (INCLUDING ATTACHED WALLING AND GATEWAY ON COVERT ROAD FRONTAGE), COVERT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032139
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-4 Almshouses (Including Attached Walling and Gateway on Covert Road Frontage)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-4 ALMSHOUSES (INCLUDING ATTACHED WALLING AND GATEWAY ON COVERT ROAD FRONTAGE), COVERT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032139
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-4 Almshouses (Including Attached Walling and Gateway on Covert Road Frontage)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1-4 ALMSHOUSES (INCLUDING ATTACHED WALLING AND GATEWAY ON COVERT ROAD FRONTAGE), COVERT ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-4 ALMSHOUSES (INCLUDING ATTACHED WALLING AND GATEWAY ON COVERT ROAD FRONTAGE), COVERT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Reydon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM5016977474
Details
TM 57 NW
5/27
REYDON
COVERT ROAD
Nos.1-4 (inc.) Almshouses (including attached walling and gateway on Covert Road frontage)
II
Group of almshouses, comprising 4 identical cottages arranged around a small
green and linked by low walling. Dated 1908 on turrets either side of main
entrance, together with the inscription 'The Rest for the Aged'. Red brick
with dark headers; plaintiled roofs. Single storey. Each cottage has a T
shape plan: hipped roof with weatherboarded gablets to main block, crowstepped
gable end set forwards. Casement windows with square-leaded panes, segmental
arches; boarded and battened entrance doors. In each crowstepped gable is a
pedimented wooden tablet, originally with different inscriptions. Internal
stack to each cottage. Along Covert Road is kidney flint and brick boundary
wall, with a curved section between each pier filled by iron railings. The
main entrance piers take the form of brick turrets with conical plaintiled
roofs with metal capping. The turrets are corbelled out half way up and again
at eaves level. At the rear they are inscribed 'These cottages presented to
the town of Southwold by Andrew Matthews of The Elms Southwold'. Wrought iron
gates.
Listing NGR: TM5016977474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281892
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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