Condlyffe Almshouses
CONDLYFFE ALMSHOUSES, CONDLYFFE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Condlyffe Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- CONDLYFFE ALMSHOUSES, CONDLYFFE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Condlyffe Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONDLYFFE ALMSHOUSES, CONDLYFFE 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:
- CONDLYFFE ALMSHOUSES, CONDLYFFE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98465 55956
Details
LEEK
SJ95NE CONDLYFFE ROAD 611-1/1/50 (North West side) Condlyffe Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses. Dated 1882. Red brick with stone dressings and half-timbering in upper storeys, red plain-tiled roofs. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 identical blocks. Each block symmetrically planned with paired 2-storeyed central gables flanked by single-storey entrance blocks linked to low gabled outer wings. Central blocks have wide 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor, with stepped mullioned windows in attic storey above. Leaded glazing. Stone ribs and bands form hoodmould to lower windows. Half-timbering in upper storey. Overhanging eaves with finials and cresting to gable roofs. Stepped mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing in outer gables, with half-timbering in the apex above, and tiny leaded loft-lights. Triple doorways (renewed) in low blocks linking these gables. Axial stacks between central gables and to rear of outer gables, with moulded brick caps. Inscription on bargeboards of gables, partially mutilated, but recording 'the days of my labour o lord though hast blest. Blest be the hand .. the love .. and on the days of my rest'; 'the lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore'. INTERIOR: not inspected. The design of the almshouses was attributed to Norman Shaw by MH Miller, a local historian writing in 1891. (Miller MH: Olde Leek: Historical Biographical, Anecdotal and Archaeological: Leek: 1891-).
Listing NGR: SJ9846555956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miller, M H, Olde Leek Historical Biographical Anecdotal and Archaeological, (1891)
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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