1-5 Cookes Almshouses
1-5, Cookes Almshouses, High Street, DY12 2DJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099987
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5 Cookes Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, Cookes Almshouses, High Street, DY12 2DJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099987
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5 Cookes Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, Cookes Almshouses, High Street, DY12 2DJ
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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:
- 1-5, Cookes Almshouses, High Street, DY12 2DJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bewdley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78732 75098
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 June 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SO 7875 SE
13/63
BEWDLEY CP
HIGH STREET (south side)
Cooke's Almshouses
Nos 1-5
(Formerly listed as Cooke's Almshouses Nos 1 - 8 (consec))
22.4.50
GV
II
Eight almshouses. Founded 1693, restored 1860, with some mid-C20 alterations. Rendered sandstone and brick with tile roof, stacks in two clusters of four square shafts to rear. Two storeys, moulded cornice, string to ground floor, C19 brick plinth; four windows: Three-light casements; centrally placed stone tablet bearing long inscription concerning the founder, Thomas Cooke, has a segmental pediment and eared architrave with consoles. To rear a lean-to along whole wall which contains the entrance. (BoE, p 86; VCH 4, p 299 - 300, 316).
Listing NGR: SO7861875253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 299-300
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 86
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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