Hester Clark Almshouses and attached wall and piers

1-4, Hester Clark Almshouses, Bargates, Leominster, HR6 8EZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270334
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:: Hester Clark Almshouses and attached wall and piers
Statutory Address:: 1-4, Hester Clark Almshouses, Bargates, Leominster, HR6 8EZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270334
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:: Hester Clark Almshouses and attached wall and piers
Statutory Address 1:: 1-4, Hester Clark Almshouses, Bargates, Leominster, HR6 8EZ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-4, Hester Clark Almshouses, Bargates, Leominster, HR6 8EZ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leominster
National Grid Reference:: SO 49278 59009

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 January 2023 to update the name and address, remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards

SO4959 808-1/1/10

LEOMINSTER BARGATES (South side) Hester Clark Amshouses (Nos 1-4) and attached wall and piers

(Formerly listed as Clark's Hospital and attached wall and piers)

GV II Almshouses. c1735 foundation, rebuilt 1874. By Haddon. Yellow brick with ashlar detailing; plain tile roof with central gable; two circular brick end stacks and decorated twin central stack. Four unit plan.

EXTERIOR: single storey; four-window range: three-light ashlar mullion and transom windows with sashes with coloured leaded upper lights; two central windows have ogee heads under moulded hoods, polychrome brick tympanum, and "Dutch" gable with enriched niche containing figure, and tablet "He that gives away all before he is Dead, Let em take this Hatchet and knock him on ye head". Entrances flank central windows: moulded semicircular ashlar arches with keyblocks and enriched imposts, to vestibules with twin C20 casements and, to left and right, round-headed nine-panel doors in beaded cases under polychrome brick semicircular arches.

INTERIORS not inspected.

Fronting wall of yellow brick with blue brick coping, and piers with moulded ashlar capitals; ball finials. Tablet records foundation by Hester Clark, 1735, and rebuilding by subscription in 1874 (Haddon, Architect; Smith, Builder).

Listing NGR: SO4927859009

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Legacy System number:: 459565
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Price, J , An Historical and Topographical Account of Leominster and Vicinity, (1795), 139-140

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.