SAYERS ALMSHOUSES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100757
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- Statutory Address:
- SAYERS ALMSHOUSES, 8-13, LOWER PARK
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- SAYERS ALMSHOUSES, 8-13, LOWER PARK
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 78815 75037
Details
SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP LOWER PARK (north side)
13/169 Nos 8 - 13 (consec)
[Sayers Almshouses]
22.4.50
GV II
Six almshouses. Founded 1625, rebuilt 1897, and restored early 1980's.
Brick with stone dressings and machine tile roof, stacks in ridge. Two
storeys with moulded stone cornice to stone coped parapet which has a
central inscribed stone tablet recording history of the foundation; 4 + 4
+ 4 windows, the central part slightly advanced: 2-light windows with 4-
centred arch to each light and a square label; ground floor: 2 + 2 + 2
similar windows, with an entrance to left- and right-hand corners, and
paired between each pair of windows (six entrances in all), each has a
stone surround with 4-centred arch and label, blind fanlights and C20
ledged and boarded doors (VCH 4, p 315 - 316).
Listing NGR: SO7880875044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1906), 315-316
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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