Shen Place Almshouses and Pump

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TQ59SE SHENFIELD ROAD 723-1/8/115 (South side) 05/04/94 Nos.1-6 (consec) Shen Place Almshouses and pump (Formerly Listed as: SHENFIELD ROAD Shen Place Almshouses)

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Almshouses. 1910. Red brick with display timber-framed gables, roofed with flat clay tiles. E plan to back and front with tall chimney stacks in Tudor-style moulded red brick. EXTERIOR: single storey. Front, N elevation, court with projecting end wings has an interrupted verandah on timber posts carried down from roof pitch which is partly enclosed now by glazed timber porches to each dwelling unit, added, in an appropriate style in 1988. Composition totally symmetrical. Gables of outer wings project with carved tie-beams and barge boards in Elizabethan/Jacobean style, with decorative pendants and finials. Gable ends have vertical studding with pargeted roses and central inscriptions extolling the virtues of work, (E) and charity (W). Single gable end windows slightly corbelled out as oriels of 4 lights, leaded panes with marginal green stained glass. Central wing as simple slight projection similar in style but gable has all-over herringbone studding, two 3-light windows in similar style. Principal range each side of centre has 2 boarded doors (one into side of central projection) and a single light window similar to those on projecting wings but set flush to wall. These doors and windows somewhat obscured by 1988 added porches. E and W inner side elevation of outer wings each have a large mullioned and transomed window 3x2 lights similar to those on gable fronts, flat roofed and cut through roof eave as a semi-dormer. Verandah stopped and wall brought forward below windows. Adjacent, C20 glazed porch screening boarded door. To N, original verandah and original single light flush window with leaded panes. 8 stacks rise from the roof apices. Rear, S elevation similar, symmetrical style as front but more simple. Outer wings have plain vertical studding in gables, below, single segment headed window, each with 3 casement lights with glazing bars in total 6x3 panes. Inner faces now have a C20 lean-to addition with a casement window with glazing bars, 2x3 panes. Principal range each side of centre has 2 segment headed window of casements with glazing bars, one 4 lights, 8x3 panes one 3-light, 6x3 panes, also, one flat-headed double casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Central unit comprises tile-hung gable rising from roof pitch surmounted by an ornamental weather vane set upon a wooden base carved as an Ionic volute, caryatid emerging from an acanthus leaf base. In front, small gabled projection with 2 simple casement windows. Both gables have moulded barge-boards. Inner edges, E and W of projection have a C20 door having upper glazing with glazing bars, 2x3 panes, also double casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Outer E and W elevations, flank walls of end cross-wings have, to S, gable ends of principal range projecting through roof. Moulded tie-beams, barge-boards, collar and vertical studs in gables. Wall of wing considerably disturbed by C20 modernisation. N-S, boarded utility room door, 2 single-light casement windows, one C20 double casement window, two C20 doors with upper glazing, glazing bars, 2x3 panes. One C20 double casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. INTERIOR: essentially plain now, exposed ceiling joists remain. PUMP: a cast-iron pump with fluted decoration central in the rear yard 3.2m away from the central wing. The Almshouses and the wall to Shenfield Road (qv) make a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5990094006

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