Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses
Nos 1-10, GRAYS ALMS HOUSES, EAST STREET, TAUNTON, TA1 3NA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1232341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses
- Statutory Address:
- Nos 1-10, GRAYS ALMS HOUSES, EAST STREET, TAUNTON, TA1 3NA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1232341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- Nos 1-10, GRAYS ALMS HOUSES, EAST STREET, TAUNTON, TA1 3NA
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:
- Nos 1-10, GRAYS ALMS HOUSES, EAST STREET, TAUNTON, TA1 3NA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 23074 24504
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/02/2017
ST 2324 NW 12/10
ST 2524 SW 14/10
EAST STREET (South Side)
Nos 1-10 Grays Alms Houses
(Formerly listed as Gray's Almshouses, EAST STREET)
4.6.52.
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Founded by Robert Gray to 1015 for poor single women. Two storey range. Leaded casement windows are mostly new, otherwise few alterations. The East Street front is of dark red brick with nine large chimney stacks, paired shafts set diagonally. Ashlar dressings and stone plinth. Weathered string over ground floor. Old tile roof. Square bell cupola with weather vane. Three and two-light stone mullioned windows. Three entrances with tablet above one bearing the arms of Robert Gray, dated 1635, another arms of the Merchant Tailors. Access to the dwellings by corridors along the back of each dlmop. Small room used as chapel has original benches and painted ceiling.
Nos 1-10 Grays Alms Houses and Nos 48 to 54 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: ST2307424504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269705
- 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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