NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES

NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES, LADY HERBERTS GARDENS, COVENTRY, CV1 1JQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271508
Date first listed:: 25-May-2001
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES
Statutory Address:: NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES, LADY HERBERTS GARDENS, COVENTRY, CV1 1JQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271508
Date first listed:: 25-May-2001
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES
Statutory Address 1:: NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES, LADY HERBERTS GARDENS, COVENTRY, CV1 1JQ

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.

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTHERN BLOCK AT LADY HERBERTS HOMES, LADY HERBERTS GARDENS, COVENTRY, CV1 1JQ

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

District:: Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP3354279417

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/02/2017

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833/2/10123

Lady Herberts Gardens

Northern Block at Lady Herbert's Homes

(Formerly listed as Northern Block at Lady Herbert's Homes, CHAUNTRY PLACE)

25-MAY-01

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II

Almshouse block of six dwellings. 1935, by Albert Herbert for Sir Alfred Herbert. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and hipped Swithland slate roofs. Prominent panelled and coped brick ridge stacks. Single storey, six bays. Windows are original leaded casements, with ashlar mullions and transoms. Front has projecting centre, two- bays, with two four-light windows, and beyond, on each side, a small single light. Side ranges have similar fenestration. Hip ends have single windows with transoms. Rear has three projecting porches, each with a continuous mullioned window, six lights. In each return angle, a plain Tudor arched doorway with inscribed lintel and recessed board door. Flanking each porch, a two-light window.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

The almshouses are the major feature of a public garden dedicated to the memory of Florence Herbert, wife of Sir Alfred Herbert, died 1930.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 October 2019.

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487592
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.