DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES

DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES, LITTLE HEATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330247
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES, LITTLE HEATH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-12
Reference:: IOE01/01646/05
Rights:: © Mr Michael L Reed. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330247
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES, LITTLE HEATH 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:: DIXON'S ALMSHOUSES, LITTLE HEATH ROAD

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Christleton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 44302 65926

Details

SJ 46 NW CHRISTLETON C.P. LITTLE HEATH ROAD (East Side)

3/17 Nos.1-6 (consecutive) Dixon's Almshouses

GV II*

Six almshouses: 1868 by J.Oldrid Scott in memory of James Dixon of Littleton. Timber framed on ashlar red sandstone plinth. Red tile roof and 5 ashlar -chimneys. Tudor style. Long rectangular plan. 1 and 2-storey, symmetrical, 6-bay front. Tall rectangular timber panels, the upper ones with delicate geometric pargetting. 4-light wood-mullioned windows with pierced quatrefoil or intersecting tracery. The 2nd and 5th bays have gabled 2-storey porches open to the ground floor with heavily carved spandrels. These have 4-centred arched entrances, with carved spandrels, flanked by cusped lights. Similar 4-light windows in the upper storey. There is a memorial plaque on the left hand one, a biblical quotation on the right. To the rear are 3 1-storey projections containing entrances and a verandah on wooden posts. Interior: Not inspected. A good, early example of Victorian timber framing with a vernacular feel, particularly to the rear.

Listing NGR: SJ4430265926

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Legacy System number:: 55463
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.