1 and 2 Almshouse
1 AND 2 ALMSHOUSE, THE STENDERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348548
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Almshouse
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2 ALMSHOUSE, THE STENDERS
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- Date:
- 2007-07-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/16572/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348548
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Almshouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2 ALMSHOUSE, THE STENDERS
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 AND 2 ALMSHOUSE, THE STENDERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mitcheldean
- National Grid Reference:
- SO6610918472
Details
SO 61 NE
6/170
27.4.78
MITCHELDEAN
THE STENDERS
(south side)
Nos 1 and 2, Almshouse
(formerly listed as The Wilderness Charity Almshouses, Stenders Road)
II
Semi-detached houses; 1857 (datestone); squared, roughly coursed
stone, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. L-plan, gable to road, one-
and-a-half storeys. Entry porch set diagonally in angle:
shouldered lintel to doorway, below pointed arch containing shield
and leaf carving; hoodmould over: door boarded. On right return
to porch a lancet window. Porch roof gabled, swept eaves, plain
bargeboards. Left gable of house, 3-light stone window, trefoil
heads to equal-height lights, below relieving arch, 2-light window
above without relieving arch. On right return single lancet.
Gable as for porch. Right-hand gable has plain, chamfered plinth,
with corner buttresses below plinth extending side walls. Ground
floor a recessed canted bay with ashlar voussoirs over, 2-light in
centre. Gable and window above as left gable. Lateral chimneys.
"HD" carved on shield, 'AD mdccclvii' on lintel to door.
Listing NGR: SO6610918472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354251
- 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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