Horncastle Almshouses
HORNCASTLE ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NEW LANE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113544
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Horncastle Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- HORNCASTLE ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NEW LANE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113544
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Horncastle Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORNCASTLE ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NEW LANE HILL
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.
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:
- HORNCASTLE ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NEW LANE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67801 72254
Details
NEW LANE HILL 1. 5128 Tilehurst Horncastle Almshouses Nos 1 to 6 (consec)
SU 67 SE 16/297 II
2. 1852. Tudor style 1 1/2 storeys red brick with grey brick diapers and stone dressings. Old tile roof. 6 ridge chimneys with paired shafts and alternately spiral and diapered raised patterning. 6 gabled dormers with 3 light mullion casement windows (leaded panes). Six 4-light similar casement windows on ground floor. Slight central break with pediment, grey brick headers with red brick quoins, Tudor archway with beaded door and rubbed brick relieving arch. Throughpassage to individual rear access. Modernized and rear outshuts altered. Central stone tablet in front inscribed: "These Almshouses were erected and endowed by the late Mrs Elizabeth May and Miss Mary Lyne of Burghfield in this county for 6 poor women, 3 belonging to Tilehurst and 3 to Burghfield parishes. January 1st 1852". 4 foot high brick wall to street with stone capped gatepiers in centre.
Listing NGR: SU6780172254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39091
- 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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