Hester Clark Almshouses and attached wall and piers
1-4, Hester Clark Almshouses, Bargates, Leominster, HR6 8EZ
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Overview
- 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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
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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