Delabere Almshouses
DELABERE ALMSHOUSES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100710
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Delabere Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- DELABERE ALMSHOUSES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100710
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Delabere Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- DELABERE ALMSHOUSES
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:
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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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