Almshouses Including Front Wall
ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses Including Front Wall
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT WALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses Including Front Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT WALL
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:
- ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03170 11983
Details
WIMBORNE ST GILES SU 0311 WIMBORNE ST GILES' VILLAGE
13/115 Almshouses including front wall (formerly listed as 18.3.55 the Almshouses)
GV II*
Range of 10 almshouses with central common room, c. 1624. Flemish-bond brickwork with tiled roof having end stone copings and brick kneelers. Heavy, moulded brick cornice. Diagonally set, paired brick stacks with moulded caps between almshouses. Single storey, 10 window range. Moulded, square-headed, 2-light stone mullioned windows. Paired ashlar doorways with depressed 4-centred heads and plank doors. Central former common room has an ashlar loggia of 3 round arches. The common room range is gabled above and bears a central cartouche of arms flanked by square-headed casement windows. The central doorway from the loggia to the former common room is highly ornate having a surround with arabesques to the uprights and palmette above. The doorway has moulded stiles and rails and a round-headed open panel above containing a fretwork panel with a carved grotesque mask. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 94, no. 2).
Listing NGR: SU0317011984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 94
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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