Ogilvie Almshouses
OGILVIE ALMSHOUSES, LEISTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228271
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Ogilvie Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- OGILVIE ALMSHOUSES, LEISTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228271
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Ogilvie Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- OGILVIE ALMSHOUSES, LEISTON ROAD
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:
- OGILVIE ALMSHOUSES, LEISTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldringham cum Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM4719359932
Details
TM45NE ALDRINGHAM LEISTON ROAD
CUM THORPE Thorpeness
7/10007 Ogilvie Almshouses
GV II
Residences for estate staff. 1926 by William Gilmour Wilson as part of the Thorpeness village development for Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. Concrete and brick with applied timber framing. Plaintiled roofs. Continuous 2-storey range with central gateway and projecting end pavilions. Gateway of 2 storeys. Central stone stilted carriage arch with 4-centred pedestrian passageways
right and left under square heads. Foliage carving in the spandrels. Above are date plaques: 19 and 28. Coat of arms over carriage arch, with shields either side. 2 2-light mullioned windows to second floor, each with 2 transoms. One blind niche either side. Setback stepped parapet with central statuary niche below crocketed ogee canopy. High hipped roof with lead termini finials.
Interior of gateway with brick piers separating pedestrian passages from carriageway. Rear (north)face of gateway broadly similar. Flanking wings with exposed concrete blocks to plinth course. Applied timber studding to first floor. 2 4-centred doorways each side: in centre under projecting gabled 2-storey porches; at extremities under pentice roof of full-height projecting gabled bays. Fenestration of wooden mullioned windows with leaded glazing. INTERIOR. Not inspected. Part of good group and one of the principal buildings in this resort village.
Historical Note: The owner of Thorpeness Estate, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, himself conceiving the project, designed and sketched out the whole village and commissioned the architects involved
Listing NGR: TM4719359932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402844
- 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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