MANN MEMORIAL 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: MANN MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES
List entry Number: 1101635
Location
MANN MEMORIAL ALMSHOUSES, 1, 2 AND 3, VANTORTS ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Sawbridgeworth
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 02-Oct-1981
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 160878
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List entry Description
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
VANTORTS ROAD
1.
5253
(East Side)
Mann Memorial Almshouses
(Nos 1, 2 and 3)
TL 4846 1478:3/65
II GV
2.
1901-2 erected by Mrs Mann of Hyde Hall (Kelly's directory 1914), as a
memorial to her husband. Gables have plaques with 'HEM' '1899'. Single
storey facing into churchyard. Tudor Gothic style in knapped flint walling
with stone dressings and gabled slate roofs. Symmetrical E front with
recessed centre and flanking gabled wings. Parapet interrupted by higher
central gable with kneelers and upright oval panel carved with fishing rod,
2 barbed hooks, a float and a fish. Moulded stone quoins, drip moulds, 2,
2 light, mullioned and transomed windows to centre, canted 4 light oriel
window to front of each wing, and bases and caps to tall chimneys. Lean-to
slate and timber open porches in angles and similar central porch each on
low masonry piers with flint set flush with stone quoins and coping.
Plank doors with pointed arched openings. Similar drip mould and cross
windows to N and S flanks. Outbuildings to rear around yard covered by
glass and iron roof. Red brick wall and gate piers to Vantorts Road with
moulded terra cotta copings. Low wall to churchyard boundary of stone and
flint formerly carried railings. An elaborate small almshouse and part of
group with parish church.
Listing NGR: TL4844814798
Selected Sources
Books and journals
'Kellys Directory' in Hertfordshire, (1914)
National Grid Reference: TL 48460 14784
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