The Fox Almshouses
1-12, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139982
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 1-12, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139982
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Fox Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-12, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
- Statutory Address 2:
- 14, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
- Statutory Address 3:
- 67, HIGH STREET, NORTON
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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:
- 1-12, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
- Statutory Address:
- 14, THE FOX ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET, NORTON
- Statutory Address:
- 67, HIGH STREET, NORTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ4459721638
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/05/2015
NZ 4421 NE
23/239
NORTON
HIGH STREET (West side)
Nos 1 to 12 (consec.) , No 14 The Fox Almshouses and No 67 High Street
(Formerly listed as Nos 1 to 12 (consec.) Fox Alms Houses and Meeting Room, and 67 High Street, previously listed as Fox Alms House).
19.1.51
GV
II
Built by Mr Fox in 1897 opposite his brewery in Smirke's Yard. A neat row of 13 cottages with large gables breaking forward slightly. Brick with high tiled roofs and 12 tall chimneys with spurs on each side. Paired doorways in the centre of each gable with shaped lights above; 4-light wooden transom and mullion windows on each side with Tudor arch heads. The gables are half-timbered with an alternative rectangular and diagonal patterns (the former being small attic lights) and bargeboards. At the East end, to the street, is No 67 which is treated as a continuation of the almshouses in similar style. No gable to South but a single door with a small window to the right. Half-timbered gable to street has bargeboard and is jettied and supported on a shallow 6-light bay and end brackets. A tablet in the gable, set in a Strapwork panes, flanked by female herms, states "The Fox Alms House 1897. Built and endowed by Henry Fox of Norton". The former Meeting Room (No 14) is on the South side of the garden opposite Nos 5 and 6. Single storey in similar style. Projecting gabled centre with an 8-light window, (2 of these lights being a doorway with shaped lights above). Five-light bays to East and West supporting jettied gable ends. Brick with tiled roof and Spurred chimney. Offices and walls to rear alley also included
Listing NGR: NZ4459721638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59368
- 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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