LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES

LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES, NEWTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290288
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES, NEWTOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290288
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES, NEWTOWN ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOWER RAYMOND ALMSHOUSES, NEWTOWN ROAD

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 46982 66616

Details

1. NEWTOWN ROAD 5127 (east side)

Lower Raymond Almshouses SU 4666 NE 7/135 SU 4766 NW 8/135

II

2. 1796 (date scroll on central gable) symmetrical terrace of 12 almshouses. Another range at right angles to this one was destroyed in 1943. Two storeys. One window each with paired entrances. Modern hipped red tile roof, with 6 red brick stacks. Brick with coped gable to slightly projecting centrepiece with lunette in the tympanum; arched gateway now blocked. Recessed sash windows with glazing bars and some modern casements. Doorways with gabled hoods, rectangular fanlights and panelled doors. (Newbury Buildings, Past and Present (1973) 47).

Listing NGR: SU4698266616

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Legacy System number:: 395204
Legacy System:: LBS

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Newbury Buildings Past and Present, (1973), 47

Legal

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