HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES

HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES, 49-59, MAGDALEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297893
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1971
List Entry Name:: HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES, 49-59, MAGDALEN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297893
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES, 49-59, MAGDALEN STREET

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:: HARBORD'S ALMSHOUSES, 49-59, MAGDALEN STREET

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Thetford
National Grid Reference:: TL8739483233

Details

TL8783 617-1/6/93

THETFORD MAGDALEN STREET (North West side) Nos.49-59 (Odd) Harbord's Almshouses

(Formerly Listed as: MAGDALEN STREET (North West side) Nos.49-59 (Odd))

10/03/71

II

Set of 6 almshouses. 1680, restored C19, rear additions mid C20. Whitewashed flint and brick with red brick dressings. Pantile roof. One storey. 6 plank doors within whitewashed brick surrounds arranged 1-2-2-1. Each house with a 3-light casement, now mainly C19. Gabled roof with 4 rebuilt brick stacks. South-west gable with diaper patterning and set-off at eaves line. Rear with mid C20 yellow brick continuous outshuts. INTERIOR not inspected. (Crosby: A History of Thetford: Chichester: 1986-: 93).

Listing NGR: TL8739483233

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Legacy System number:: 384761
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Crosby, A, A History of Thetford, (1986), 93

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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.