WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349271
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349271
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: WARDEN'S LODGE, BOARDROOM, CHAPEL, LIBRARY AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO EAST OF COURTYARD AT BEAUCHAMP ALMSHOUSES

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Newland
National Grid Reference:: SO 79606 48460

Details

NEWLAND CP - SO 74 NE 5/77 Warden's Lodge, boardroom, chapel, library and attached buildings to east of courtyard at Beauchamp Almshouses GV II* House, boardroom, library and chapel. 1863 and later, by P C Hardwick. Brick with limestone dressings and tile roof. The warden's lodge is of two storeys. At the left it has a canted bay window, with a 3-light window on the first floor under a gable. To the right is a cross-wing with a square bay window on the ground floor and applied timbering to the gable. In the middle is a gabled timber window on the first floor and a doorway with shouldered head and three lights over. Chimney, to left, and to left of cross-wing, with rubbed brick shafts of various descriptions. Adjoining to the left is the gable of the boardroom, which has a window of three trefoiled ogee lights with flat head and reticulated tracery. At the left is a single-storey link to the Church of St Leonard (qv). It has three windows of two lights and two of three lights, with moulded timber mullion. The door, to the right of the first window, has a pointed head, carved spandrels, and flanking lights with tracery. Projecting from the east wall of this range are the library and chapel. The latter is timber-framed and is constructed from part of the old Church of St Leonard which was demolished in 1864. It has timber windows of three tre- foiled lights in its east and north walls. The east gable has a truss with curved braces to a cambered tie-beam, and a king-strut between tie-beam and collar. Interior: chapel has two roof trusses with tie-beam and raking struts. Boardroom has false hammerbeam roof on corbels, with arch-braces to embattled collars. The fireplace is carved with foliage and has an overmantel with a moulded border to a painting. (BoE, p 223).

Listing NGR: SO7961148450

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 223

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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.