Smith's Almshouses
SMITH'S ALMSHOUSES, ELM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037766
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Smith's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- SMITH'S ALMSHOUSES, ELM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037766
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Smith's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMITH'S ALMSHOUSES, ELM STREET
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.
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:
- SMITH'S ALMSHOUSES, ELM 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 16071 44507
Details
1. 1260 ELM STREET (South Side)
Smith's Almshouses TM 1644 NW 1/43 19.12.51
II GV
2. A mid C18 red brick building. 2 storeys and cellars. 7 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames. The windows are widely spaced in the facade. A central 6 panel door has a wood doorcase with moulded architrave, panelled reveals and a flat hood on brackets above a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. Above the doorway there is a panel inscribed with the words:- "Erected in the year 1760 for the benefit of 12 poor women of honest life and conversation of the age of 50 or upwards being Communicants of the Church of England as by lae Established." Roof tiled, with 2 square red brick chimney stacks.
Church of St Mary at the Elms, No 1 Churchyard (St Mary's Cottage) No 25, Smith's Almshouses & Nos 29 to 33 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TM1607144507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275431
- 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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