Cooke's Almshouses
COOKE'S ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286836
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cooke's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- COOKE'S ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286836
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Cooke's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOKE'S ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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:
- COOKE'S ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57874 06889
Details
BENTLEY WITH ARKSEY HIGH STREET SE 50 NE (west side), Arksey
7/54 Cooke's Almshouses 10.12.59 GV II Almshouses. 1660, gateway rebuilt 1736, C20 alterations. For Sir Bryan Cooke (d.1660). Cement-rendered magnesian limestone (exposed on right return), C19 shaped-tile roof. 12 single-storey dwellings set in U-shaped plan with wing walls to central front gateway enclosing the quadrangle. Roadside front: central gateway has C20 wrought-iron gates in renewed ashlar sandstone surround with projecting keystone, pulvinated frieze and plaque with Latin inscription beneath cartouche in coped gable. Terracotta tiles form copings to attached wing walls which link to gable ends of almshouses each having C20 casement, shaped kneelers and roll-moulded gable copings. 2 rendered stacks to each ridge. Within quadrangle: central round-arched opening to passage through to rear. Nos 2, 5, 8 and 11 retain cemented chamfered mullioned windows; chamfered door lintels, all painted. Exposed within the passage to rear is the original roof structure with tie beam and rafters pegged at apex. C20 additions to rear not of special interest. Translated inscription of porch plaque (cited in Miller, p228) reads:
"Bryan Cooke, of Wheatley in the county of York, Esq. by his last will and testament, signed the 3rd day of Jan. A.D. 1660, appointed this building to be erected, a sum of money sufficient for that purposes being bequeathed for the use of twelve persons the most distressed by poverty and age in the parish of Arksey; to each of whom he left 5L. annually, in succession for ever".
"Sir George Cooke, Baronet, great grandson of the above named Bryan, rebuilt this porch nearly levelled to the ground by the injuries of time, Oct. 30 A.D. 1736".
E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.
Listing NGR: SE5787306892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miller, E, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, (1804)
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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