Draper's Almhouses

DRAPER'S ALMHOUSES, ST PETER'S ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1094679
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:
Draper's Almhouses
Statutory Address:
DRAPER'S ALMHOUSES, ST PETER'S ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1094679
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:
Draper's Almhouses
Statutory Address 1:
DRAPER'S ALMHOUSES, ST PETER'S ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DRAPER'S ALMHOUSES, ST PETER'S ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TR 36193 69689

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/01/2011


TR 36 NE 12/68
lO.4.51.
1380


ST PETER'S ROAD
(South West Side)
Draper's Almshouses
(or Yoakley's Almhouses)


GV
II


Almshouses forming 3 sides of a courtyard, The old part is the north east wing. Built C18 - there is a date in brick headers in the west gable of 1709. Ground floor and attic storey above. l0 windows and restored dormers. Knapped flints with red brick dressings, quoins and eaves cornice. Shaped Dutch gable of flints and bricks in the centre of the wing with a second and third storey and clock above surmounted by a wooden belvedere with bell. Casement windows. Doorcases with rectangular fanlights and 4 panel moulded doors. 2 C19 bay windows added to the centre building beneath the gable. On the north side of the wing facing the road are 6 little transversal wings ending in shaped Dutch gables, added In 1852. The North West and South East wings of the courtyard were built in 1848 and 1850 respectively and lengthened in 1881 and 1882 respectively. They are similar to the old wing with a Dutch gable in the centre but have gabled dormers and Gothicised (Tudor) windows.

Draper's Almshouses and Lodge to Almshouses form a group


Listing NGR: TR3619369689

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
356675
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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