5 AND 6, POWELL ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209148
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, POWELL ROW
Statutory Address:: 5 AND 6, POWELL ROW

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/05245/06
Rights:: © Mr Brian Arnold. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209148
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, POWELL ROW
Statutory Address 1:: 5 AND 6, POWELL ROW

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:: 5 AND 6, POWELL ROW

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Bitteswell with Bittesby
National Grid Reference:: SP5359485896

Details

SP58NW 1323-0/3/18

BITTESWELL POWELL ROW Nos.5 AND 6

GV II

Pair of almshouses. 1847. One of three pairs founded by Wakelin Welch, esq. and his wife, Elizabeth. Brick in Flemish bond with yellow stone dressings. Decorated tile roof with crested ridge tiles. Semi-detached with rear wings. Shallow external end stacks with paired shafts; end stacks to wings. End gable walls with coping and kneelers. Symmetrical 4-window range. All windows casements in stone surrounds. Side bays with 2 and 3-light windows to 1st and ground floors respectively. Centre bays under gable with coping and kneelers; 2 single-light windows connected by string course that rises to contain central shield in recessed panel. 4-centred arched doorways below with planked doors. 2-light windows to ground-floor side elevations and 1st-floor rear. This building forms part of an attractive set of three almost identical almshouses.

Listing NGR: SP5359485896

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Legacy System number:: 392507
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.