1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses
1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses, Owston Ferry, Doncaster, DN9 1AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346692
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses, Owston Ferry, Doncaster, DN9 1AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346692
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses, Owston Ferry, Doncaster, DN9 1AH
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:
- 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses, Owston Ferry, Doncaster, DN9 1AH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Owston Ferry
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 81066 00449
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/02/2018
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OWSTON FERRY
Bagsbury Road
Nos 1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses
(Formerly listed as Almshouses Nos 1-6 (consecutive) BAGSBY LANE (south side))
II
Almshouses. 1860 for Frances Sandars. Red brick in Flemish bond with limestone ashlar, blue and yellow brick dressings. Welsh slate roof.
Rectangular on plan, each house with a two-room front, kitchen wing and yard to rear. Single storey, 17-bay symmetrical south front with gabled central and end bays breaking forward. Chamfered plinth. Steps to ashlar entrances with board doors on wrought-iron strap hinges beneath chamfered four-centred arches with carved foliate spandrels in square-headed chamfered reveals. Two and three-light ashlar mullioned windows, each light with three panes, in chamfered reveals. Similar three-light windows to end bays; pair of single-light windows to central bay. All openings with quoined surrounds. Gabled bays have flush yellow brick bands at eaves level. Central gable has lozenge panel bearing arms in relief, and large stone tablet above with carved spandrels and a segmental-headed panel inscribed:
Frances Sandars
dedicated these houses to
Almighty God for ever
AD 1860
For the benefit of Aged females
End gables each have a pair of octagonal ashlar panels beneath blue brick crosses. Coped gables with shaped kneelers throughout, the central gable with a good carved figure finial of a seated old woman in bonnet and apron, reading; pointed carved finials to end bays. Steeply pitched roof with banded plain and octagonal fish-scale slates. Corniced end stacks and ridge stacks with pointed recessed yellow brick panels to front. Stacks have alternating louvred cylindrical and crenellated octagonal pots. Still in use as almshouses. Built on a raised platform overlooking open fields, with a ha-ha around south and east sides faced with squared rock-faced limestone.
Frances Sandars, a local benefactor, also provided the Market Place Lamp (qv), the churchyard archway (qv) and many gifts to the church.
Listing NGR: SE8106600449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Read, W, History of the Isle of Axholme, (1858), 303-304
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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