Mann Memorial Almshouses
Mann Memorial Almshouses, 1, 2 and 3, Vantorts Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101635
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Mann Memorial Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- Mann Memorial Almshouses, 1, 2 and 3, Vantorts Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101635
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Mann Memorial Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mann Memorial Almshouses, 1, 2 and 3, Vantorts Road
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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:
- Mann Memorial Almshouses, 1, 2 and 3, Vantorts Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawbridgeworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48460 14784
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 March 2022 to correct date of build and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 4846 1478:
3/65
VANTORTS ROAD (East Side)
Mann Memorial Almshouses (Nos 1, 2 and 3)
GV
II
1899-1902 erected by Mrs Mann of Hyde Hall (Kelly's directory 1914), as a memorial to her husband and son. 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 easst front with recessed centre and flanking gabled wings. Parapet interrupted by higher central gable with kneelers and upright oval panel carved with fishing rod, two barbed hooks, a float and a fish. Moulded stone quoins, drip moulds, two two-light, mullioned and transomed windows to centre, canted four-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 north and south 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914)
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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