St Faith St Hilda St Joan St Monica
12-26, ARGYLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291422
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- St Faith St Hilda St Joan St Monica
- Statutory Address:
- 12-26, ARGYLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291422
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Faith St Hilda St Joan St Monica
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-26, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST FAITH, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- ST HILDA, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- ST JOAN, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 5:
- ST MONICA, ARGYLE ROAD
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:
- 12-26, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ST FAITH, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ST HILDA, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOAN, ARGYLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ST MONICA, ARGYLE 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 46884 66552
Details
1. ARGYLE ROAD 5127 Nos 12 to 26 (even) St Hilda, St Monica, St Joan, St Faith) (Formerly St Bartholomew Close) SU 4666 NE 7/9 10.6.69
II GV
2. Circa 1670 almshouses erected by Alderman P Jemmett of London, possibly a conversion of a C16 open-fronted brick shed. (Trans Newbury Field Club 6, 157). The original almshouses consisted of one-up and one-down with a wide fireplace and a semi-circular newel staircase. Extensively reconstructed 1929 as homes for retired nurses. An inscription panel states: Farm buildings 1550/J H Winchcombe/Almshouses 1670/ Philip Jemmet/Reconditioned 1929/W Essex Wynter. Wing plan. Two storeys with gable attic dormers. Tiled roof. Red brick ground floor, partly rendered. Timber framed 1st floor with close studding and plaster panels. Mostly 2-light casement windows with leaded lights. The part has gabled central 2 storey porch and over the entrance is reset an ancient, somewhat weathered achievement of the Arms of the Brewers Company dated 1670. At the rear are 2 gables. Jemmett's almshouses were successively known as Church Cottages, Raymond's Buildings and St Bartholomew's Close. (Country Life, 23 July 1943, 158).
Listing NGR: SU4688466552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Newbury and District Field Club in Transactions of the Newbury and District Field Club, Vol. 6, (1932), 157
Country Life in 23 July, (1943), 158
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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