The Alms Cottages
THE ALMS COTTAGES, 10 AND 12, SHEFFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136685
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Alms Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMS COTTAGES, 10 AND 12, SHEFFORD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-09-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/09025/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136685
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Alms Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMS COTTAGES, 10 AND 12, SHEFFORD 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:
- THE ALMS COTTAGES, 10 AND 12, SHEFFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16385 38914
Details
TL 1638 CLIFTON SHEFFORD ROAD 12/31
18.11.75 Nos. 10 and 12 (The Alms Cottages) /formerly listed as (Clifton Almshoused)/ II Pair of almshouses. Upened 1872. Door dripmoulds have inscriptions: "Gleaner & Sower", "Widows homes", a reference to 2 monthly magazines. The Little Gleaner for the Young and The Sower. The editor of these, the Rev. Septimus Sears (Minister of the Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel for 35 years from 1844), drew on the profits of the magazines to partly finance the building of the almshouses. Colourwashed brick, pyramidal clay tile roof. Small single- storeyed rectangular block with symmetrical facade. A large 4-light wood mullioned window with slender transom is flanked by doors of 6 vertical panels with pegged cover strips. Each opening has square label with inscription, that to window reading: "A judge of the widows is God in his Holy habitation". Central brick double ridge stack.
Listing NGR: TL1638538914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sears, Reverend S, The Little Gleaner for the Young, ()
Sears, Reverend S, The Sower, ()
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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