THE ALMS COTTAGES

THE ALMS COTTAGES, 10 AND 12, SHEFFORD ROAD

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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
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 37817
Legacy System:: LBS

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Sears, Reverend S, The Little Gleaner for the Young
Sears, Reverend S, The Sower

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