ALMSHOUSES

ALMSHOUSES, 41 AND 43, LOWFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320067
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: ALMSHOUSES, 41 AND 43, LOWFIELD STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320067
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: ALMSHOUSES, 41 AND 43, LOWFIELD 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:: ALMSHOUSES, 41 AND 43, LOWFIELD STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dartford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 54126 73872

Details

1. LOWFIELD STREET 5274 (North-West Side) Nos 41 and 43 (Almshouses) TQ 5473 3/23 27.9.73.

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2. Dated 1889. Built by John Johnson in Queen Anne Dutch style on the site of 4 earlier almshouses built by John Byer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. 2 storeys. Built of yellow brick with red cut brick dressings specially made to the design by the Elham Valley Brick Company. Tiled roof with curved gable ends. 4 ornamental pediments, 2 of which are triangular and the centre 2 curved and incorporating the date AD 1889. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Moulded brick stringcourse between ground and 1st floors with Anthemion motif. 4 double sashes to each floor set in moulded architraves. Tablet between 2 centre lst floor windows records the earlier almhouses on the site. Panels of swag moulding underneath 1st floor windows. The 2 doorcases have stone open pediments, moulded architraves, rectangular fanlights and 6 fielded panelled doors, the top 2 panels cut out and glazed. Plinth.

Listing NGR: TQ5412873878

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Legacy System number:: 172129
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.