Morley Almshouses
MORLEY ALMSHOUSES, MORLEY ALMSHOUSES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205956
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- MORLEY ALMSHOUSES, MORLEY ALMSHOUSES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205956
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORLEY ALMSHOUSES, MORLEY ALMSHOUSES LANE
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:
- MORLEY ALMSHOUSES, MORLEY ALMSHOUSES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38656 41301
Details
PARISH OF MORLEY MORLEY ALMSHOUSES SK 34 SE LANE 1/85 (North Side) 2.9.52 Morley Almshouses (formerly listed as Almshouses on the Moor) II
Terrace of six almshouses. Founded by and built for Jacynth Sacheverell in 1656. Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof, chamfered stone coped gables and three brick stacks just off the ridge. Single storey. Symmetrical south elevation of twelve bays. Central gable. Two doorways each with chamfered stone lintel and sills and plank door. Large aedicule above with Ionic pilasters and broken pediment, enclosing the Sacheverell coat of arms. Square sundial above the pediment. To the right a 2-light, two single light and a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullioned windows. Then two doorways with chamfered lintels and sills and plank doors, and a further 2-light and single recessed and chamfered mullion windows. Doorways and windows to the left of the gable, mirroring those to the right, to make the composition symmetrical.
Listing NGR: SK3865641301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352288
- 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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