Almshouses About 300 Yards South of Bridge House

ALMSHOUSES ABOUT 300 YARDS SOUTH OF BRIDGE HOUSE, A 49

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348948
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Almshouses About 300 Yards South of Bridge House
Statutory Address:
ALMSHOUSES ABOUT 300 YARDS SOUTH OF BRIDGE HOUSE, A 49
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348948
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Almshouses About 300 Yards South of Bridge House
Statutory Address 1:
ALMSHOUSES ABOUT 300 YARDS SOUTH OF BRIDGE HOUSE, A 49

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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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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:
ALMSHOUSES ABOUT 300 YARDS SOUTH OF BRIDGE HOUSE, A 49

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wellington
National Grid Reference:
SO 50020 47835

Details

SO 54 NW WELLINGTON CP A 49 (east side)

4/122 Almshouses about 300 yards south of Bridge House -

- II

Five almshouses. According to central tablet founded 1682 by Sir Herbert Perrot, restored 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Coursed sandstone rubble, timber-framed gables, tiled roof, four brick stacks evenly spaced to rear roof slope. Rectangular plan aligned north/south. One storey and attic, four windows. West elevation: two prominent gables with brattished tie-beams to left and right of central open pedimented tablet, string between storeys, regular late 019 12-pane casements, two lunettes to either side of centre, a pair of casements under each gable, six ledged late C19 doors. The monument to Perrot, who died in 1683, is in the parish church of St Margaret (qv).

Listing NGR: SO5002047835

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Legacy System number:
154087
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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