40-43, WEST STREET
40-43, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147075
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 40-43, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40-43, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147075
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 40-43, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40-43, WEST STREET
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:
- 40-43, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alford
- National Grid Reference:
- TF4517875860
Details
TF 4475-4575
6/41
ALFORD
WEST STREET
(south east side)
Nos. 40 to 43 (consecutive)
G.V.
II
6 almshouses and wall, now 4. 1870. Red brick with 2 blue
brick bands, ashlar and terracotta dressings, hipped slate roofs
with decorative ridge tiles and finials, 4 ridge stacks with
diamond set shafts. U-plan. Single storey with attics, 10 bay
front, the end bays are advanced and hipped. Plinth, moulded
terracotta string course, bracketed eaves. Central pair of half
glazed doors flanked by pairs of 2 light casement windows, single
doors and further single 2 light windows beyond. Above the
centre is a recessed square stone plaque recording foundation by
Sir Robert Christopher in 1668 and rebuilding in 1870, with above
a 4 light window in a gable. All windows have chamfered mullions
and surrounds, the doors with shouldered surrounds. In the
central gable is a scrolled cartouche of arms. To either side
are gabled 2 light dormer casements with carved bargeboards
supported on wooden brackets. Linking the advanced end bays is
a low pierced brick wall with ashlar coping and to either side of
the central gateway are square piers with pyramidal copings.
Listing NGR: TF4517875860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195564
- 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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