The Old Almshouses
THE OLD ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162508
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-02-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/03047/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162508
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, CHURCH 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 OLD ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Scawby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 96896 05533
Details
SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET (south side)
19/86 Nos 1-4 inclusive (The Old Almshouses)
GV II
Row of 4 houses, formerly almshouses. C18 or earlier origins with C19 alterations and additions. For Nelthorpe Estate. Coursed limestone rubble with brick stacks and brick first-floor sections to wings, colour-washed throughout; brick porch to front and outshuts to rear. Pantile roofs. Plan: central 2-room section with pair of entrances to east front, flanked by 3-room wings; rear outshut to central section, pair of rear outshuts and entrances to each wing. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows to central section, flanked by wings with 2-storey, single-window inner sections and single-storey, 2-window outer sections. Central section breaks forward. Projecting gabled porch to left of centre with blind chamfered 4-centred arch panel to front containing small casement and panelled door to left side beneath timber lintel; board door to right of centre beneath segmental brick arch; 12-pane sliding sashes to either side beneath painted wooden hood- moulds. 3 similar windows to each wing. Blocked openings beneath timber lintels visible in wings. First floor: 12-pane sliding sashes with lintels at eaves level. Cogged brick eaves cornice to first-floor sections. End stacks to 2-storey sections; axial stacks to wings, with end stack to right. Rear outshuts to wings incorporate gabled sections with blind 4-centred arch panels. The wings, and probably also the central section, were formerly single-room almshouses.
Listing NGR: SE9689605533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166047
- 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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