The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161342
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161342
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN 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:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton Holme
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 96701 45513
Details
DALTON HOLME MAIN STREET (South Dalton) SE 94 NE (east side) 2/30 The Almshouses GV II Almshouses. 1873 on inscribed stone. Coursed rock-faced ashlar with dressed stone, tiled roof, timber verandah and dormers. L-shaped range of 7 irregular bays with projecting 2-bay chapel to north end. Boarded doors in pointed surrounds flanked by six 3-light mullioned windows and a single 4-light mullioned window to the north end. Pointed service passage to bay 2. Verandah on turned wooden posts carried on a coped dwarf wall. Roof dormers each with 3 ogee-headed lights under timber-framed gablets with carved barge boards. Paired octagonal axial stacks, raised coped gables. Chapel: boarded door in pointed arch to right: to left a 2-light mullioned window; external stack with offsets beneath octagonal flue to centre. Square bay with 4-light mullioned window, all lights with ogee arches. Coped gables with ornate finials. Inscribed tablet on external stack:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF CHARLES LORD HOTHAM / THESE FOUR COTTAGES FOR THE / COMFORT OF THE AGED OR INFIRM OF / THIS UNITED PARISH OF DALTON HOLME / ARE BUILT BY HIS BROTHER A.D. 1873.
West window: pointed, of 2 lights with transom. Lower lights have cinquefoil heads, the upper have trefoil heads.
Listing NGR: SE9670245511
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164565
- 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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