Dodds Charity Alms Houses and Garden Wall

DODDS CHARITY ALMS HOUSES AND GARDEN WALL, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329852
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1953
List Entry Name:
Dodds Charity Alms Houses and Garden Wall
Statutory Address:
DODDS CHARITY ALMS HOUSES AND GARDEN WALL, THE VILLAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329852
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Dodds Charity Alms Houses and Garden Wall
Statutory Address 1:
DODDS CHARITY ALMS HOUSES AND GARDEN WALL, THE VILLAGE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DODDS CHARITY ALMS HOUSES AND GARDEN WALL, THE VILLAGE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Little Budworth
National Grid Reference:
SJ 59490 65348

Details

LITTLE BUDWORTH C.P. THE VILLAGE SJ 56 NE 3/58 Dodds Charity alms houses and garden wall. 10.3.53 (Formerly listed as Almshouses)

- II* Almshouses and garden wall. Late C17. Red Flemish bond brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and red sandstone ashlar with plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: Five bays (Symmetrically disposed. Central three bays projecting with ashlar quoins alternately flush with brickwork and slightly projecting with chamfered rustification. Central doorway with round arch and quoins and voussoirs of similar flush and projecting format.C20 double door with fanlight over (now painted over). Plain stone tablet above this with arched top and moulded edge. To either side at ground and first floor levels are two-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds. Similar arrangement in lateral recessed bays. Right hand return: Ashlar walling. Building of two phases, a later wing having been added at right. Single light ground and first floor windows at left with door to right of centre and 2-light ground and first floor windows at right. Rear: Central projecting 2 bays with door at left and 2-light widow at right with 2 C20 windows above. Two single-light windows to right of this and C19 wing at left with 2 single light windows. Adjoining the later wing and forming a rectangular garden enclosure is a wall of coursed ashlar c 3' in height with a chamfered coping. Interior: Passage hallway with staircase to centre having ashlar treads and wooden balustrade with square newels and column balusters of 3-sided open-well format. Plank doors to ground and first floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ5949065348

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Legacy System number:
57340
Legacy System:
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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.

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