1-8, McDonalds Almshouses
1-8, McDonalds Almshouses, West Street, Farnham, GU9 7AE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243672
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, McDonalds Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 1-8, McDonalds Almshouses, West Street, Farnham, GU9 7AE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243672
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, McDonalds Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-8, McDonalds Almshouses, West Street, Farnham, GU9 7AE
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:
- 1-8, McDonalds Almshouses, West Street, Farnham, GU9 7AE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farnham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 83187 46410
Details
SU 8246 and SU 8346
8/336
FARNHAM
WEST STREET (north side)
Nos 1-8 McDonalds Almshouses
II
Range of eight almshouses. Dated 1905. By A Stedman. Red brick in stretcher bond with ashlar dressings; front gables timber-framed with plaster infill. Plain tile roofs.
One storey; nine bays. the central, projecting, gabled bay with attic and end bays also projecting and gabled. Chamfered plinth; doors half-glazed with leaded upper panels; stone mullion-and-transom windows with quoined jambs and leaded lights; barge boards to gables. Symmetrical elevation in rhythm a, b, c, b, d, b, c, b, a.
Central bay has archway flanked by stone-coped wall supporting timber arcade forming porches to doors of central almshouses, each door with a side-light; in the gable a decorative plaster panel bearing date and name set below a four-light wood-mullioned window. End bays each have a six-light king-mullioned window with one bay of arcading either side, on inner side forming porch to door, on outer side fronting a window, each gable has a decorative plaster panel with sundial and motto "Time and tide wait for no man". Bays three and seven have gabled, arcaded porches to paired doors, flanked by three-light curved-corner windows. Cross windows to intermediate bays. Tall ribbed and corniced stacks in front and rear roof pitches and to ridges of gabled bays.
Rear: central archway partly infilled by added brick block.
Each almshouse has a low wing, slightly extended later C20 under a hipped roof.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Temple, N, Farnham Buildings and People, (), 182
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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