The Great Almshouses
THE GREAT ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053285
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053285
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- THE GREAT ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 25292 12345
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON CHURCH LANE AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Great Almshouses. 7/5 12.9.55
GV II*
Also known as, and shown on map as, Warwick Almshouses. Mid C15, restored (and altered) 1828. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof; 2 storeys, coped verge string over 1st floor. Coped verge to right, 2 rubble chimneys. 4 windows, 2-light lancet type with foiled heads, labels to ground floor windows and ferramenta, 2 low Tudor arch doors with labels and a central one with traceried spandrels and label. Outer slightly raised Tudor arch doorways (blocked) with labels. Tablet over central doorway inscribed "These almshouses were founded by Richard Earl of Warwick in the year 1457 and were rebuilt in the year 1828." Blocked doorway to right of this. L-plan wings to rear. J Sherwood & N Pevsner Buildings of England: Oxford (1974). R & M Moody: The Story of Burford (1983). R H Gretton: The Burford Records (1920).
Listing NGR: SP2529212345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254107
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moody, R, M, , The Story of Burford, (1983)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
Gretton, R H, The Burford Records, (1920)
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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