The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174641
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-05-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/10739/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174641
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 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 ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Donyatt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 33934 14038
Details
DONYATT CP CHURCH STREET (North side) ST31SW 4/39 The Almshouses (formerly listed as Almshouses 30 yards south of Church) 4.2.58 GV II
Group of 6 almshouses in row. Dated 1624, restored in C19 and C20. Ham stone ashlar; undulating plain clay tiled roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; yellow and red brick chimney sticks. Two storeys, 6 bays. Continuous string between floors; hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, no labels, 2-light above and 3-light below, with diamond leaded panes; to right of bays 1,2 and 4, and to left of bays 3,5 and 6 are chamfered cambered arched doorways with deep lintels, C20 panelled doors. Further mullioned windows in end gables and set high on west gable a plaque describing the gift of the almshouses, the date not discernible. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958.
Listing NGR: ST3391614037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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