Almshouses
ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181683
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181683
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, HIGH 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:
- ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 98011 38224
Details
STOCKTON HIGH STREET ST 93 NE (off south side) 7/135 Nos 1 to 6 (inclusive) Almshouses 11.9.68 GV II Six almshouses. Founded 1641 by Topp family, built 1657. Coursed rubble stone and dressed limestone in bands, Welsh slate roof with coped verges and finials. Brick or stone stacks with moulded cappings. Built around three sides of a courtyard with wall and gateway on south side, side wings. Single-storey and attic, 2-window south front. Central C20 double doors in chamfered stone surround, 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement either side; cast-iron casements throughout. Moulded string course below eaves with heraldic cartouche over door, two gabled stone attic dormers with 2-light mullioned casements. Flanking wings each have two glazed doors and one 2-light mullioned casement facing into courtyard, gable ends have one 2-light mullioned casement and string course. Side wings have chamfered doorways with C20 doors to front, left return of south wing has two single-light casements to both floors, right hand wing has single- light casements to ground floor only. Rear has glazed doors and single-light casements, single-storey wing to right with C20 planked doors and 2-light mullioned casements. Interior altered. Stone wall closing south side of courtyard has saddleback coping, central semi-circular arched gateway with rusticated gate piers, moulded cornice to top with finials and richly carved cartouche with arms of Topp. The Topp family were wealthy clothiers, John Topp built Stockton House (q.v.). (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST9801138224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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