Stockton Almshouse
STOCKTON ALMSHOUSE, 98, DOVECOT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067818
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stockton Almshouse
- Statutory Address:
- STOCKTON ALMSHOUSE, 98, DOVECOT STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01298/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067818
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stockton Almshouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOCKTON ALMSHOUSE, 98, DOVECOT 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:
- STOCKTON ALMSHOUSE, 98, DOVECOT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 44127 18998
Details
NZ 4419 SW STOCKTON ON TEES DOVECOT STREET NZ 4418 NW (north side)
27/289 29/289 No 98. (Stockton Alms- house) II
Dated 1897. 2 storeys. 3 + 1 + 3 + 2 windows to Dixon Street. Last 2 windows part of taller pavilion with 4 windows to Dovecot Street and with an angle. Pink brick with grey stone- quoins cill and dressings to main pavilion. Wood modillion eaves cornice. Slate roof, 6 brick chimneys. Glazing bar sash windows. Windows of main pavilion have architraves, segmental headed with 3 keystones and wooden mullions on ground floor, round headed with rusticated architrave over entrance. Pedimented Gibbs doorpiece. Angle with Dixon Street has a thin ground floor window with the date 1897 worked into keystone above a round headed tablet with voussoirs struck into quoins, inscribed "Stockton Almshouses Situation the east side of the High Street, rebuilt 1816 with a sum of money bequeathed for that purpose by George Brown Esq, were sold and taken down AD 1896. These buildings were erected with part of the purchasers money AD 1897" plus a list of Trustees. Bottom quoin of angle laid by Thomas Walton, Mayor on 26th October 1896 and so inscribed. Dixon Street front set back from larger pavilion. Brick flat arches and stone quoins to windows. Centre projects slightly and is crowned by a pediment containing a blind oculus with 4 keystones. At rear of the North return are a pair of 4 centre arch headed windows with lozenge glazing and label mould.
Listing NGR: NZ4412718998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59441
- 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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