TOOLEY COURT TOOLEY'S AND SMART'S ALMSHOUSES

TOOLEY COURT, FOUNDATION STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037738
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: TOOLEY COURT TOOLEY'S AND SMART'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: TOOLEY COURT, FOUNDATION STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037738
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: TOOLEY COURT TOOLEY'S AND SMART'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: TOOLEY COURT, FOUNDATION STREET
Statutory Address 2:: TOOLEY'S AND SMART'S ALMSHOUSES, FOUNDATION 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOOLEY COURT, FOUNDATION STREET
Statutory Address:: TOOLEY'S AND SMART'S ALMSHOUSES, FOUNDATION STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 16603 44278

Details

1. 1260 FOUNDATION STREET (East Side)

Tooley's and Smart's Almshouses (Tooley Court) TM 1644 SE 4/77

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2. Founded in 1550 by Henry Tooley with additional endowments in 1591 by William Smart. The whole establishment was rebuilt in 1846 and there are some C20 additions on the east side. The present buildings are on 3 sides of a garden court with an entrance gatehouse on the west side. Red brick. 2 storeys. Each block has 8 window range grouped 1:3:3:1, casements in chamfered reveals. The window openings now have painted rustications. The side wings have double ranges with enclosed yards between. The ends have open staircases with heavy balustrade pillars and are surmounted by cables with moulded brick copings and moulded pillar pinnacles. Roofs tiled, with 3 square chimney stacks with moulded caps and base on each block, The central lodge and gate house facing on to Foundation Street is in red brick with some timber-framed construction with brick nogging. A central jettied gable has an oriel bay window with leaded lattice lights above a 4 centred arched doorway. To the left of the entrance way there is a timber-framed octagonal tower with brick nogging and a shaped lead domed roof which rises above the gable roof.

Tooley's and Smart's Almhouses form a group with No 32.

Listing NGR: TM1660344278

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 275466
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.