BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES

BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES, 5-11, 15-21, WATERMOOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298662
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1971
List Entry Name:: BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES, 5-11, 15-21, WATERMOOR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298662
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-May-1993
List Entry Name:: BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES, 5-11, 15-21, WATERMOOR 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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Location

Statutory Address:: BOWLY'S ALMSHOUSES, 5-11, 15-21, WATERMOOR ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Cirencester
National Grid Reference:: SP 02464 01642

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 WATERMOOR ROAD 578-1/6/326 (East side) 23/07/71 Nos.5-11, 15-21 (Odd) Bowly's Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: WATERMOOR ROAD (East side) Nos.5, 7, 11-21 (Odd) Bowly's Almshouses)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.5, 7 AND 11 Bowly's Almshouses WATERMOOR ROAD. Almshouses. Dated 1826. Coursed squared limestone rubble; artificial stone slate roof with coped verges with trefoil head stops at apex; 2 ashlar and 2 concrete blockwork ridge stacks retaining some C19 decorative square-section clay pots. Range of 8 almshouses with coped gable to centre with kneelers and trefoil head stops at apex. 2-storey 8-window range. First floor has eight 2-light chamfered stone-mullion windows with C20 metal casements; ground floor has 8 similar windows and eight C20 glazed doors in chamfered stone surrounds with Tudor-arched heads. Full-width verandah to ground floor has artificial stone slate roof with glazed panels supported on square-section timber posts. 3 small ashlar panels with recessed quatrefoil decoration to first floor left and right and in gable; ashlar panel with moulded stone surround above first floor centre has incised lettering: BUILT MDCCCXXVI/ BY CHRISTOPHER BOWLY/ AND ENDOWED BY HIM/ MDCCCXXXVII. Sun Fire Insurance plate above this panel. Flush quoins to left and right angles. Decorative wrought-iron weathervane at apex of gable. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0246401642

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Legacy System number:: 365464
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.