Joseph Banks' Almshouses

JOSEPH BANKS' ALMSHOUSES, 3-12, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215308
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Joseph Banks' Almshouses
Statutory Address:
JOSEPH BANKS' ALMSHOUSES, 3-12, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215308
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1982
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Joseph Banks' Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:
JOSEPH BANKS' ALMSHOUSES, 3-12, THE GREEN

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
JOSEPH BANKS' ALMSHOUSES, 3-12, THE GREEN

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Revesby
National Grid Reference:
TF 29849 61325

Details

TF 26 SE REVESBY THE GREEN (west side)

3/43 Joseph Banks' Almshouses 2.11.82 Nos. 3-12 (consecutive)

G.V. II

10 almshouses. 1862. Red brick, ashlar dressings, slate roofs. 5 red brick ridge stacks having tall octagonal paired funnels with moulded tops. Single storey and attics, 19 bay symmetrical front having plinth and 10 ledged planked doors arranged in gabled pairs, the middle pair being advanced with moulded brick Tudor arched surrounds. Windows are 2 light cast iron latticed casements. All openings have cambered brick arches. In the roof are 4 gabled dormers having 2 light casements and slate hung cheeks. To either gable end are single canted oriels with moulded ashlar tops and bases. In the front gables are blank trilobes alternating with ashlar panels, inscribed with Banks insignia and date 1862. Over the central pair a larger tablet records the foundation of the original almshouses in 1728 by Joseph Banks,Esq., MP for Revesby. The almshouses rebuilt by J. Banks Stanhope.

Listing NGR: TF2984961325

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Legacy System number:
400452
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.

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