The Poynder Almshouses
THE POYNDER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363749
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Poynder Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE POYNDER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05985/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363749
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Poynder Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POYNDER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH 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:
- THE POYNDER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilmarton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 02125 75310
Details
HILMARTON CHURCH ROAD SU 07 NW (south side) 6/246 The Poynder Almshouses 24.6.74 GV II Row of five Poynder estate almshouses, dated 1877, rockfaced rubble stone with ashlar dressings and banded fishscale tiled roofs with coped gables and end stacks to each house. Single storey, elongated H-plan with three houses in a row and one across each end, each house with 2-light mullion window and hoodmould each side of gabled porch. Iron lattice lights. Centre house has more ornate gabled porch, advanced further, with pointed-arched entry and armorial plaque over. Houses each side and end houses have coped gables to centre with lancet in gable and Tudor-arched entry with hoodmould. End gables facing road of end houses have 1:2:1- light ashlar canted bays. Plan appears to be based on Plate 7, for a group of three cottages, in Henry Weaver's Hints on Cottage Architecture, 1848.
Listing NGR: SU0210875311
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316373
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weaver, H, Hints on Cottage Architecture, (1848)
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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