Whetstone's Almshouses
WHETSTONE'S ALMSHOUSES, CAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345865
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whetstone's Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- WHETSTONE'S ALMSHOUSES, CAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345865
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whetstone's Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHETSTONE'S ALMSHOUSES, CAD ROAD
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:
- WHETSTONE'S ALMSHOUSES, CAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3503617014
Details
ILTON CP CAD ROAD (North side)
ST31NE CAD GREEN
3/87 Whetstone's Almshouses
4.2.58
GV II
Group of 6 almshouses, formerly with chapel. 1635, modified early C20. Ham stone ashlar Welsh slate roof with coped
gables; brick chimney stacks. 'U'-plan; 2 storeys, 8-bay south elevation, of which the outer bays project for one wide
bay. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, all 3-light with horizontal-bar inserts with each centre
light having an iron-framed opening casement; bay-1 is a plain end gable, bay 6 has a blocked 3-light window in
pointed-arched recess, formerly lighting the chapel; similar windows in returns, with cambered-arched doorways near
internal corners, and pairs matching doors in the wide spaces between bays 3/4, and 5/6: continuous label over all
ground floor openings, continued around returns but not on gables. East and west elevations of 3 bays, with one doorway
each - these elevations apparently less restored than that to south. Interiors not seen. Almshouses founded by John
Whetsone, Gent, in 1635 (inscription over gateway q.v.).
Listing NGR: ST3503617014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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