The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls

The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls, 1-14, Berwick Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1055129
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls
Statutory Address:: The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls, 1-14, Berwick Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1055129
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls
Statutory Address 1:: The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls, 1-14, Berwick Road

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls, 1-14, Berwick Road

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pimhill
National Grid Reference:: SJ 47487 14778

Details

SJ 41 SE SJ 4748 1477; 10/81

BOMERE HEATH C.P., BERWICK ROAD (west side), Nos. 1-14 (consec.), The Almshouses, and adjoining forecourt and garden walls

(formerly listed as Berwick Almshouses)

29.01.52

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II*

Row of almshouses and adjoining walls. Dated 1672, built at the expense of Sir Samuel Jones. Red brick with plain tile roofs. U-plan around square courtyard with enclosing wall to south. One storey and attic.

Moulded brick string courses above ground-floor windows, parapeted gable ends, large full brick gabled eaves dormers with segmental-headed two-light wooden casements, and integral brick lateral stacks to rear with pitched-roofed links to attics and paired diagonally-placed square shafts. Segmental-headed two-light wooden casements and mainly segmental-headed boarded doors. North range of eleven windows with door between first and second windows from left and two to right, one early C19 with six flush panels and three-part rectangular overlight; six dormers and two stacks. The fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth windows from the left were formerly doorways (see straight joints beneath).

West range of nine windows with door between fourth and fifth windows from left; five dormers and three stacks. The first, fourth, seventh and eighth windows from the left were formerly doorways (see straight joints beneath). East range of nine windows, with door between fourth and fifth windows from right. Five dormers and four stacks. The first, fourth, seventh and eighth windows from right were formerly doorways (see straight joints beneath). Gable ends to front with segmental-headed two-light wooden casements, cross windows to ground floor (left-hand ground-floor window blocked but frame survives).

Red brick enclosing wall to south (right-hand part looks partially rebuilt in mid-C20) with chamfered grey sandstone coping. Central grey sandstone ashlar gateway with chamfered rustication, ovolo-moulded elliptical archway with rusticated voussoirs and moulded imposts, frieze and moulded cornice, and large semi-circular pediment with globe finial and carved coat of arms in tympanum. Ashlar flanking walls with chamfered coping, stepped up to gateway with carved scrolls. Inscription to frieze largely illegible at time of survey (January 1987). C17 brick walls enclosing gardens at rear, with stepped grey sandstone coping.

The almshouses were founded by Sir Samuel Jones in 1670 for sixteen old people, each receiving £10 a year. The inscription on the gateway, largely illegible at the time of survey is known to read: "These Almshouses and Chappel were Given / and Endow'd by Sr Samuel Jones Knight / Anno Domini 1672".

The almshouses and chapel (q.v.) stand in the parkland around Berwick House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ4750414764

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 259142
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cranage, DHS , An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 847
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 74
'Kelly's Directory' in Kelly's Directory, (1900), 130

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.