Eagles Close Almshouses
EAGLES CLOSE ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, POST OFFICE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283687
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Eagles Close Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- EAGLES CLOSE ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, POST OFFICE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283687
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Eagles Close Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAGLES CLOSE ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, POST OFFICE LANE
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:
- EAGLES CLOSE ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, POST OFFICE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wantage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU3998587812
Details
WANTAGE POST OFFICE LANE
SU4087, SU3987NE (East side)
8/153, 9/153 Nos.l to 10 (consecutive),
Eagles Close Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses. Built 1867 for Town Commissioners. Flemish bond red brick with
limestone ashlar bands; old tile roof with decorative ridge tiles; brick stacks.
Row of "one-up, one-down" cottages with rear outshut. 2 storeys; 10-window
range. Pointed arches of alternating brick and stone ashlar voussoirs over plank
doors with decorative strap hinges. Similar tympanum arches over 3-light
ground-floor casements, some with H-L hinges: similar first-floor 2-light
casements. 4 offset buttresses divide each paired door. Ashlar bands beneath
first- and ground-floor window sills. Gabled roof with stone coping to parapets;
ridge stacks. Interior not inspected. Built in similar style to Nos.23 - 37 Mill
Street (q.v.) also of 1867.
Listing NGR: SU3998587812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251252
- 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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