Almshouses
ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1062997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1062997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES, MAIN 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:
- ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 23718 74461
Details
TF 27 SW HEMINGBY MAIN STREET (west side)
1/5 Almshouses 14.9.66 G.V. II
5 almshouses. 1727, C20. Red brick. Pantile roof with stone coped gables and kneelers, 2 axial ridge stacks, single ridge stack. 2 storeys, 11 bay front with first floor brick band. Central doorway flanked by single windows, with a doorway beyond on each side and 2 windows beyond on each side and a single doorway beyond on each side. All the doorways with segmental heads and panelled door, the left hand doorway in a small, gabled C20 porch with a glazed door. All the ground floor windows with segmental heads and C20 cross mullion casements. 6 two light casements above. Ashlar plaque above central doorway inscribed: "The Hospital and School were erected in the year 1747 by Jane Dymoke Widow of the Hon. Charles Dymoke of Scrivelsby Esq Champion of England and endowed by her will and a yearly salary to a School Master and Mistress for teaching all the poor children in the Parish of Hemingby to read write and work and with competent provision of clothing for six of the said children and for putting some of them Apprentices and also yearly allowance for four poor widows Inhabitants of the County of Lincolnshire is appointed in her will".
Listing NGR: TF2371874461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195662
- 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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