Lench's Trust Almshouses
LENCH'S TRUST ALMSHOUSES, LADYWOOD MIDDLEWAY B16
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076280
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Lench's Trust Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- LENCH'S TRUST ALMSHOUSES, LADYWOOD MIDDLEWAY B16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076280
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Lench's Trust Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- LENCH'S TRUST ALMSHOUSES, LADYWOOD MIDDLEWAY B16
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:
- LENCH'S TRUST ALMSHOUSES, LADYWOOD MIDDLEWAY B16
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 05519 86188
Details
LADYWOOD MIDDLEWAY 1. 5104 Ladywood B16 Lench's Trust Almshouses SP 08 NE 7/62A SP 0586 SW 37/6 26.8.81 II 2. Dated 1858, by J H Hornblower and Haylock. Red brick; stone dressings; shaped tiled roofs. In a Jacobean style. To the street a symmetrical composition created by a central matron's lodge and 2 wings stretching back from a flanking wall with a single door in it just to the left of the matron's lodge. This has a shaped gable; the wings have gables with lushly decorated tripartite panels containing identical inscriptions and are surmounted by chimneys. The matron's lodge has at ground level a tripartite mullioned and transomed window with, above, a tripartite mullioned window with hood mould. The wall has a moulded capping stone which continues across the facade of the wings as stringcourses. Within the precinct, a lawn with, facing onto it, 12 almshouses, 6 each side. Two-light casement windows to both ground and first floors. Porches, each giving entry to 3 almshouses, rise through 2 storeys. They are open on 3 sides at ground floor level, have a single 2-light casement window on the first floor and terminate in shaped gables. The matron's lodge has a stone canted bay window rising through 2 storeys and terminating in a shaped gable.
Listing NGR: SP0551986188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217343
- 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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