Cleave's Almshouses
CLEAVE'S ALMSHOUSES, OLD LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 6NQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184584
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cleave's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- CLEAVE'S ALMSHOUSES, OLD LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 6NQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184584
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cleave's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEAVE'S ALMSHOUSES, OLD LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 6NQ
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:
- CLEAVE'S ALMSHOUSES, OLD LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 6NQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kingston upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1844469363
History
Kingston upon Thames, historically in Surrey, was an important market town, port and river crossing from the early medieval period, while there is evidence of Saxon settlement and of activity dating from the prehistoric period and of Roman occupation. It is close to the important historic royal estates at Hampton Court, Bushy Park, Richmond and Richmond Park. The old core of the town, around All Saints Church (C14 and C15, on an earlier site) and Market Place, with its recognisably medieval street pattern, is ‘the best preserved of its type in outer London’ (Pevsner and Cherry, London: South, 1983 p. 307). Kingston thrived first as an agricultural and market town and on its historic industries of malting, brewing and tanning, salmon fishing and timber exporting, before expanding rapidly as a suburb after the arrival of the railway in the 1860s. In the later C19 it become a centre of local government, and in the early C20 became an important shopping and commercial centre. Its rich diversity of buildings and structures from all periods reflect the multi-facetted development of the town.
Details
(Formerly listed under LONDON ROAD)
Dated 1668. Long range of twelve 2-storey dwellings. Centre gable (partly rebuilt) with moulded brick verge and sundial, above slate descriptive tablet with carved stone surround and broken pedimented top. Tile roof, both ends hipped. 12 chimneys. 6 windows each side of centre gable. 3 oval windows over centre doorway with gauged brick surrounds. Door in two halves, 6 panels each, moulded and fielded, with two windows on each side. Surround to centre door has chamfered quoins and head. 12 lain doors to dwellings with hoods. Moulded brick eaves cornice and flat string at first floor level. Splayed brick plinth. Casement windows lancet lead lights.
Listing NGR: TQ1844469363
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/03/2016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England, London 2: South, (1983), 307
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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