DELABERE ALMSHOUSES

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: II

List Entry Number: 1100710

Date first listed: 20-Oct-1952

Statutory Address: DELABERE ALMSHOUSES

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Location

Statutory Address: DELABERE ALMSHOUSES

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

County: Worcestershire

District: Wyre Forest (District Authority)

Parish: Chaddesley Corbett

National Grid Reference: SO 88721 73669

Details

CHADDESLEY CORBETT CP BROCKENCOTE SO 8873 - 8973 14/20 Delabere Almshouses 20.10.52 GV II Five almshouses. Dated 1637, restored late C20. Sandstone ashlar and brick with tile roof. One storey with attics lit by five C20 gabled dormers, moulded sandstone string course. Ground floor with five windows: 4-light stone mullioned windows in recessed reveals; five entrances have semi-circular heads and C20 glazed doors. Gable-end of stone to ground floor, gable of brick with inset (restored) inscription panel: "This house was erected/ at the chardge of Mar -/ garet Delabere widow/ Late wife to Richard Delabere/ of Sowtham in Co/ of Gloucester equier and given/ by her for ever with Ann/yearely allowance to-/ wards 5 poore widows/ of this parish An dni/ 1637".

Listing NGR: SO8872173669

Legacy

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Legacy System number: 157006

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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