Harrison Almshouses
HARRISON ALMSHOUSES, 1,2 AND 3, CHURCHFIELDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268961
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Harrison Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- HARRISON ALMSHOUSES, 1,2 AND 3, CHURCHFIELDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268961
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Harrison Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARRISON ALMSHOUSES, 1,2 AND 3, CHURCHFIELDS
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:
- HARRISON ALMSHOUSES, 1,2 AND 3, CHURCHFIELDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32932 12481
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SE CHURCHFIELDS
817-1/20/37 (North side)
Harrison Almshouses Nos.1, 2 and 3
GV II
Formerly known as: Harrison Almshouses Nos 1, 2 and 3 CHURCH
PATH.
Almshouses, originally a block of 6 but now refurbished as 3.
Dated 1854, with C20 alterations. Red brick, Flemish bond,
with cream brick dressings, Welsh slated roof with single and
double diagonally shafted chimneystacks with band and
oversailing cap.
EXTERIOR: single storey, front elevation has 6 small paned
wood casement windows recessed under rubbed cream brick flat
arches, with yellow brick quoins on jambs, and 3 projecting
coped gabled porches, with rubbed cream brick elliptical
arches and quoins, recessed C20 half-glazed doors, spacing
W:P:W:W:P:W:W:P:W, with central stone coped Dutch gable, and
stone coped Dutch gables with external chimneybreasts left and
right flank elevations. Inscribed Portland stone tablet in
upper central gable laid by John Villiers Townshend to
commemorate rebuilding of the Almshouses, in the presence of
Lord Dudley Coutts Stewart.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Townshends were successors at Balls Park
to the Harrisons; Sir John Harrison (d.1669) left »100 to be
invested in property to produce an annual income for the
benefit of the poor in All Hallows (All Saints) Parish
Hertford, and his widow built and endowed 4 almshouses in
Butchery (Bircherley) Green before her death in 1705, her
grandson augmented the funds, and the almshouses were rebuilt
on the Church Path site in 1854. Bircherley Green had by then
become one of the worst slums in the Borough.
(Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-: 366-8,
379-80; Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian
brickwork of the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 28;
Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 92, 177).
Listing NGR: TL3293212481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 92 177
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830), 366-368
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830), 379-380
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 28
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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