ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES

ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, TABERNACLE PITCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088846
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, TABERNACLE PITCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088846
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, TABERNACLE PITCH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, TABERNACLE PITCH

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Wotton-under-Edge
National Grid Reference:: ST7566093467

Details

ST 7693 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE TABERNACLE PITCH

4/175 Nos 1 to 12 (Rowland Mills Alms houses)

II

The address shall be amended to read;

ST 7693 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE TABERNACLE PITCH

4/175 Nos 1 to 12 (Rowland Hills Alms houses) ------------------------------------ ST 7693 4/175 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE TABERNACLE PITCH

Nos 1 to 12 (Rowland Mills Almshouses)

II

Almshouses. Dated 1887. Smooth rendered, some timber framing, and battened rubble stone plinth to end pavilions; plain tile roofs. Long narrow row, in three units stepped to ground slope; continuous open balcony access to single storey units, fifteen bays in complex rhythm, series of gables, some with open framing. Balcony rail with cross bracing and standards to gable supports in simple chamfered sections. Wood casements in three lights and transom; glazing bars to top section first window only. Simple four-panel doors. Plaster wall tablet with decorative scrolls in gable end to street records 1887 rebuild of original 1815 foundation; replaced building now known as Streamsfield (q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST7566093467

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 128245
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.