Willie Almshouses and Chapel
2-8 and 8A-12, School Road, Great Totham, Maldon, CM9 8PT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111057
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Willie Almshouses and Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8 and 8A-12, School Road, Great Totham, Maldon, CM9 8PT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111057
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Willie Almshouses and Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-8 and 8A-12, School Road, Great Totham, Maldon, CM9 8PT
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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:
- 2-8 and 8A-12, School Road, Great Totham, Maldon, CM9 8PT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Totham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85679 11418
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/05/2018
TL 81 SE
4/138
GREAT TOTHAM
SCHOOL ROAD
Nos 2 to 8, and 8a to 12 (even)
Willie Almshouses and Chapel
(Formerly listed as Willie Almshouses and Chapel, SCHOOL ROAD)
GV
II
Two rows of almshouses with a small chapel at north east angle. Dated 1855. For William and Louisa Gooday. Red brick with some black brick diapering. Grey slate roofs, the chapel roof with plain and fish scale striations. L-plan. Single storey with later rear lean-to extensions.
Four Almshouses and the Chapel back onto School Road with a similar pair forward right of chapel. All face a garden courtyard with central lawn. Two red brick chimney stacks with attached diagonal shafts to left range, one similar stack to right range. Dentilled eaves cornices. Angle buttresses and one buttress to Chapel. Eight two light small paned casements with moulded centre mullions and four vertically boarded doors with segmental arches to left range. Four similar windows and two doors to right range. Stone plaque to left gable inscribed: "The Willie Almshouses. These almshouses were built by William Gooday and Louisa his wife 1855".
The courtyard face of corner chapel has a vertically boarded door with segmental pointed arch to surround and attached diagonal shaft chimney stack to right. Dentilled eaves cornice. Three stone graduated leaded lancet windows to east gable wall, angle buttress to road. Two three leaded light windows under square heads with stone mullions and dressings. Right vertically boarded door with ornate iron hinges, chamfered brick surround with segmental pointed head. To right gable apex is a stone dressed red brick open bell cote with pointed arched head, bell on cross bar. Below the bell cote is a clock under a segmental pointed arch. An attractive and unusual group in this area.
Listing NGR: TL8567911418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118973
- 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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