JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES

JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES, GREENWICH SOUTH STREET SE10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1079002
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES, GREENWICH SOUTH STREET SE10

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1079002
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES, GREENWICH SOUTH STREET SE10

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: JOHN PENN AND WIDOW SMITH ALMSHOUSES, GREENWICH SOUTH STREET SE10

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 38090 76968

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/09/2016.

TQ 3876 37/288

GREENWICH, SOUTH STREET SE10 (East Side), John Penn and Widow Smith Almshouses

(Formerly listed as: SOUTH STREET SE10 (East Side), Penn Almshouses)

II

Small group of almshouses in shallow U-shape around grass court. 1884. Red brick with freestone dressings. 1 storey and attic, irregular fenestration. High pitched tiled roof with pierced ridge tiles. Attic windows are in large flush gabled dormers, breaking eaves; with blank tracery in gable ends. Group of conjoined hexagonal chimney shafts. 1 and 2-light attic windows, stone mullioned and transomed. Ground floor windows 3-light with stone mullions and 4-centred heads. Similar heads to doors, 2 in projecting central feature with traceried parapet and central gable. Small window between. 2 other doors in projecting porches. All projections have stepped diagonal buttresses. Inscription in plaque under porch gable: "These almshouses were erected in memory of John Penn by his widow Ellen penn. AnoD MDCCCIXXXIV."

Listing NGR: TQ3809076968

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Legacy System number:: 200400
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.