Kepier Almshouses

Kepier Almshouses, Church Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184826
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: Kepier Almshouses
Statutory Address:: Kepier Almshouses, Church Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184826
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: Kepier Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:: Kepier Almshouses, Church Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Kepier Almshouses, Church Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 34252 49831

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/03/2020

NZ34NW 7/22

HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING Houghton-le-Spring Church Street (north side) Kepier Almshouses

[Formerly listed as Davenport and Lilburne Almshouses, CHURCH STREET (north side)]

26.4.50

G.V. II

Almshouses, later three then two separate dwellings. Dated 1668, restored c.1978. Coursed squared sandstone; roof pantiled.

E-plan: one cottage flanked by two cottages. One storey, five bays. Central door under flattened Tudor arch in stop-chamfered surround with triangular-stopped label mould; either side are three-light mullioned windows with similar moulds. Returns to street have door in angle and one three-light window; gables to street have three-light window: all similar to central house. Gable peaks contain inscriptions and shields: the north commemorating George Lilburn's building of half of the hospital in 1668, the south an endowment from the Reverend William Sharp. Flat stone gable coping and one transverse ridge chimney on each return.

Listing NGR: NZ3425249831

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Legacy System number:: 303178
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.