Parson's Almshouses
PARSON'S ALMSHOUSES, 92, STOKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190015
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Parson's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- PARSON'S ALMSHOUSES, 92, STOKE ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190015
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Parson's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARSON'S ALMSHOUSES, 92, STOKE ROAD
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:
- PARSON'S ALMSHOUSES, 92, STOKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99841 50162
Details
GUILDFORD STOKE ROAD SU 95SE (East Side) Stoke 1/233 No. 92 1/5/53 (Parson's Almshouses) (Formerly listed as Stoke Hospital)
GV II
Almshouses. Circa 1796, provided by the Parson brothers. Red-brown brick, some mathematical tiling on the south gable with hipped plain tiled roof. Symmetrical plan with living accommodation either side of central hall and chapel. Two storeys with brick dentilled eaves and stone coping on central pedimented bay. Two ridge stacks either side of centre and giant end pilaster piers crowned by stone spheres. 9 bay front, 4 either side of centre,with central lead plinth to wooden hexagonal cupola under domed roof and spherical finial. Leaded casement fenestration with intersecting tracery under 4-centre arched heads. Four windows on each floor to each side of central projecting break. Similar window to first floor centre; 4-centred arched head to C20 ribbed and glazed door in stone, roll- moulded surround. Square, stone woolsack plaque in pediment tympanum. recording date and names of patrons. Endowed as an almshouse for poor widows, known as "sisters", the original accommodation was for six women and a matron, increased to twelve and then thirteen in 1980 when the chapel block had a first floor inserted. Photographs in N.M.R.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.287.
Listing NGR: SU9984150162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 287
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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