Yerbury Almshouses
YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, YERBURY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198867
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Yerbury Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, YERBURY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198867
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Yerbury Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, YERBURY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, ROUNDSTONE 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:
- YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, YERBURY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YERBURY ALMSHOUSES, ROUNDSTONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trowbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85925 58093
Details
YERBURY STREET 1. 5411 (South West Side) Nos 1 to 6 (consec) (Yerbury Almshouses) ST 8558 5/45
II GV
2. Endowed 1679, rebuilt 1914 'L' plan Elizabethan style. Built in red brick, English bond with 3 gables to the front (Roundstone Street). Stone dressings to windows etc and to angle buttresses. 2 storeys. 3 windows to front. 2 and 3 light mullioned windows and a 4 light central ground floor window; casements with leaded panes. 2 smaller windows on 1st floor to left of centre. Tiled roof, 2 brick ridge chimneys. Stone panel in centre gable inscribed "1679 Yerbury Almshouses 1914". North east corner has coat of arms at eaves level. Entrance to courtyard to right in stone doorway with slight ogee arch in low brick wall; cast iron and wrought iron gate. 2+1 gables to Yerbury Street. The inner elevations have ocasional blue headers.
Nos 1 to 6 (consec) Yerbury Almshouses form a group with Nos 2 to 4 (consec), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable yard and garden railings, stable buildings and walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consec) and No 25 (Lovemead House) with garden wall and gatepiers, in Roundstone Street, and Polebarn House with boundary wall, gatepiers and gates. Polebarn Road.
Listing NGR: ST8592558093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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