4, NORTHCROFT LANE
4, NORTHCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211288
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 4, NORTHCROFT LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, NORTHCROFT LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/00396/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211288
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 4, NORTHCROFT LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, NORTHCROFT 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:
- 4, NORTHCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47051 67209
Details
1. NORTHCROFT LANE 5127 (north side)
No 4 (formerly listed as No 4 (Almshouses)) SU 4767 SW 6/177 29.9.50
II GV
2. Circa 1821 almshouses erected and endowed by John Childs for 3 male members of the Church of England. Gothick style. Two storeys. Double fronted with 3 windows. Hipped tile roof. Red brick with dentil eaves cornice. Arched. 2-light casement window with Y tracery and hoodmounds. Wide central doorway with moulded hood. Blind window over doorway with dedicatory inscription 'This Almshouse was erected and endorsed AD 1821 by Mr John Childs sail-cloth manufacturer of this town for poor men of good moral character, natives and parishoners of Newbury'. (VCH Berkshire 4, 153).
Listing NGR: SU4705167209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395796
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 153
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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