BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES

BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117404
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH HILL

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Date:: 2001-05-07
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117404
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARKER'S ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH HILL

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Nicholas, Hurst
National Grid Reference:: SU 79491 72930

Details

SU 77SE ST NICHOLAS HURST CHURCH HILL (south side)

5/15 Barker's Almshouses (Formerly listed as 1.8.52 Hurst Almshouses)

GV II Almshouses. Dated 1664, brick, narrow brick string over ground floor windows, hipped old tile roof, 2 symmetrical chimneys on main block, cruciform on plan. 2 storeys. North front has 7 bays, 6 semi-dormer windows with 3-light lattice leaded casements and hipped old tile roof with lead ridges.Below each semi-dormer is a similar but larger 3-light casement in wooden frame.In centre bay a ledged door with board hood and string broken up to form drip, and above a stone inscription panel with stone cartouche over carried up into the roof.Inscription:- "The hospital for the Maintenance of eight poor persons each at 6d.per diem for ever was Erected and Founded in ye year 1664 at the sole charge of WILLIAM BARKER of Hurst in the county of Wilts.Esq, who died on ye 25th March, 1685 and lyes buried in the South Chancel of this Parish Henry Fairfax Esq. His Newphew and Heire M.P." Interior is of no special interest. VCH p.248 B.O.E.Berkshire p.210

Listing NGR: SU7949272929

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Legacy System number:: 41228
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 248
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 210

Legal

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