Paine's Almshouses

PAINE'S ALMSHOUSES, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1039816
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
Paine's Almshouses
Statutory Address:
PAINE'S ALMSHOUSES, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1039816
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
Paine's Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:
PAINE'S ALMSHOUSES, WEST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PAINE'S ALMSHOUSES, WEST STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Oundle
National Grid Reference:
TL 03847 88113

Details

WEST STREET 1. (North Side) 1483 ------------ Paine's Almshouses TL 0388 1/12 18.6.55.

II* GV

2. Earlier C17. Two 2 storey wings stand gable end to road with garden between and linked at road end by a wall in the centre of which is a doorway with 4-centred arched head in moulded inset. Above this the moulded coping of the wall is stepped up above the doorway and carries 3 obelisk finials, the central 1 on a 3/4 segment. All walls are rubble and the roofs stone slate. Both the road end gables have a small square finial with crenellated top. Both these gable ends have a 2 storey bay with 5-light mullioned windows,east 1 hipped slate top, west 1 embattled parapet. Elsewhere the windows are random spaced, some stone mullioned some simple early metal casements with leaded lights. On the west wall of the west wing is a datestone D.G. 1753.

Nos 15 to 19 (odd) 25 and 33 to 53 (odd) form a group with Church of St Wilfred, Paine's Almshousese and Oundle Congreational Church.

Listing NGR: TL0384788113

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
231808
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.

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