The Gabriel Richards Almshouses
THE GABRIEL RICHARDS ALMSHOUSES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070263
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Gabriel Richards Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABRIEL RICHARDS ALMSHOUSES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070263
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Gabriel Richards Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABRIEL RICHARDS ALMSHOUSES, THE 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:
- THE GABRIEL RICHARDS ALMSHOUSES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goodnestone
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 25663 54761
Details
GOODNESTONE THE STREET TR 25 SE (east side) 3/108 The Gabriel Richards Almshouses (formerly listed 13.10.52 as Almshouses) GV II* Almshouses. Mid C17, extended C18. Red brick and plain tiled roof. The C18 wing of 2 storeys and hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to rear right. Two leaded 3 light wooden casements on each floor, with segmental heads on ground floor, and central segmentally headed boarded door. C17 range: entrance front of 2 storeys on plinth with plat band and moulded dogtooth eaves cornice. Two large stacks project at left and at right, each with 2 star-shaped moulded flues. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements with 2 light rendered brick mullioned window over door to centre left, the door with flat hood on brackets with side screens. More rendered mullioned windows, irregularly placed on rear elevation. Shaped gable to left, with giant pilasters to left and right, with full entablature in brick supporting broken segmental pediment with a pediment thrusting upwards through it, possibly copying the pattern at Broome Park (1635-8). The charity was endowed by Gabriel Richards in his will dated 1671, but the building was already standing. The charity was for 4 aged decayed gentlemen or gentlewomen, born in Kent, and with preference to his own relations. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 335-6; see also Hasted, IX, 247; see also Gabriel Richard's monument in Church of the Holy Cross, Goodnestone.)
Listing NGR: TR2541554411
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1797), 247
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 335-6
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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