Rowland Hills Almshouses
ROWLAND HILLS ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, TABERNACLE PITCH
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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)
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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
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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