Ash Almshouses, Retaining Wall and Railings
2 AND 4, COMPTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268669
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Almshouses, Retaining Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, COMPTON
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268669
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Almshouses, Retaining Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 4, COMPTON
- Statutory Address 2:
- ASH ALMSHOUSES, RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS, 1-11, BROAD STREET
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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:
- 2 AND 4, COMPTON
- Statutory Address:
- ASH ALMSHOUSES, RETAINING WALL AND RAILINGS, 1-11, BROAD STREET
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 98363 56314
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SW BROAD STREET
611-1/6/19 (South side)
13/04/51 Nos.1-11 (Odd)
Ash Almshouses, retaining wall and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET
Ash Almshouses)
GV II
Includes: Nos.2 AND 4 COMPTON.
Almshouses. 1676. Restored 1811. Concrete render over stone
with plain-tiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys, 7-window range, the gabled
dormers each housing paired round-arched windows. Paired
narrow round-arched windows each side of paired doorways with
shallow segmental heads and round-arched panels. Plaques over
each doorway inscribed with name of village from whence the
beneficiary was supposed to come. Return to Compton similarly
detailed, with paired central doors and flanking paired
round-arched windows, with 2 gabled dormers above. Ornate
moulded kneelers to coping of gables, and ball finials on end
gables. Axial stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the properties are separated from the
road by a roughly coursed and squared stone retaining wall
surmounted by iron spearhead railings and incorporating a
milestone in the Broad Street elevation.
Listing NGR: SJ9836356314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461593
- 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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