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SAYERS ALMSHOUSES

List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: SAYERS ALMSHOUSES

List entry Number: 1100757

Location

SAYERS ALMSHOUSES, 8-13, LOWER PARK

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

County: Worcestershire

District: Wyre Forest

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Bewdley

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 22-Apr-1950

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 156814

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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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

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1906), 315-316

National Grid Reference: SO 78815 75037

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