3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210146
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210146
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 4, POWELL ROW
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:
- 3 AND 4, 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:
- SP 53610 85893
Details
BITTESWELL POWELL ROW SP58NW 1323-0 3/17 Nos.3 AND 4 GV II
Pair of almshouses. 1847. Centre plaque records that 'these almshouses were built from funds left for charitable purposes by the late Wakelin Welch, Esq. of Camden Place, Bath and Elizabeth his wife, sister of the late Rev James Powell, vicar of this parish.' 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 window 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 a shield with the date (1847) over a plaque with text as above. 4-centred arched doorways below with planked doors. Stone quoining. Rear wings with 2-light windows to ground-floor side elevation and lst-floor rear. This building forms part of an attractive set of three almost identical almshouses.
Listing NGR: SP5361085893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392506
- 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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