Almshouses
ALMSHOUSES, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211936
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES, MIDDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211936
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES, MIDDLE 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:
- ALMSHOUSES, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Padstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9180475404
Details
PADSTOW MIDDLE STREET (east side), Padstow
SW 9075-9175
8/104 Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses and wall to front on west. 1870 (datestone). Brick laid in English
bond. Rag slate roof with gable ends and clay ridge tiles. Brick end and axial
stacks.
Plan: Courtyard plan; 2 rows of four 1-room plan houses on north and south sides
with office on east side and brick wall with entrance on west, enclosing the fourth
side of a rectangular court.
Exterior: 2 storeys. East elevation comprises the gable ends of the north and south
ranges flanking a brick wall with entrance through to the court. The wall is
stepped, rising in the centre and has a dressed stone arch with trefoil head. The
north and south ranges are each of 2 storeys with 2 pointed dressed stone arches to
the windows on the ground floor and two 4-centred arched window openings above.
Barge boards to the deep projecting verges. Datestone on right hand gable end with
inscription in memory of John Tredwin.
Within the courtyard, the 2 rows of houses comprise regular 4-window front elevations
with gables to front.
Plank doors on ground floor and 2-light casements above. Office at far east end is
lower with a gable end to front, a pointed arched opening to the porch with a 2-light
casement above.
Interior: not inspected.
Especially unspoilt group.
Listing NGR: SW9180475404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396455
- 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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