The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, SHEVINGTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072553
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, SHEVINGTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072553
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, SHEVINGTON AVENUE
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 ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, SHEVINGTON AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Croston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48469 18515
Details
CROSTON SHEVINGTON AVENUE SD 41 NE 8/87 Nos. 1.2,3 and 4 The Almshouses - - II
Almshouses. Formerly dated 1809 in pediment; altered. White painted brick on stuccoed stone base, low-pitched hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan, 4 units. Single storey, symmetrical; roof carried down to form open verandah to front and sides, supported by slender shafted iron posts, a pedimented gable in the centre (pediment formerly dated 1809 now boarded); 2 doors under this feature and one at each end, all with pointed arched panels and blank trefoil heads; 2 windows each side of the centre, all round-headed with intersecting tracery in the heads but with altered casements below. Two chimney stacks on the ridge. Rear roughcast and of less interest. Interior not inspected. History: Pediment formerly inscribed: "Erected as a tribute to George III in the 50th year of his reign".
Listing NGR: SD4846918515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184339
- 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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