Streche's Almhouses
STRECHE'S ALMHOUSES, WORGRET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119952
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Streche's Almhouses
- Statutory Address:
- STRECHE'S ALMHOUSES, WORGRET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119952
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Streche's Almhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRECHE'S ALMHOUSES, WORGRET ROAD
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:
- STRECHE'S ALMHOUSES, WORGRET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wareham Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 92015 87278
Details
1. 5190 WORGRET ROAD (North Side)
Streche's Almshouses SY 9287 1/216 SY 9187 5/216
II
2. 1907. Red brick with ashlar dressings and quoins. Pitched tile roof. Red brick stacks. Stone copedgables with Jacobean-type finials. 1 storey. U-shaped plan. Centre block with embattled parapet, 3 windows (central canted mullion and transom window), 2 doors and lantern on ridge with copper pagoda roof. Ends of wings have 1 bay window each with mullions, and elaborate stone cartouches over. 6 segment-headed porches with gables over. 20 mullioned casements.
Listing NGR: SY9201587278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108126
- 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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