The Capel Almshouses

The Capel Almshouses, 133 - 143, The Street, RH5 5EJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378149
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: The Capel Almshouses
Statutory Address:: The Capel Almshouses, 133 - 143, The Street, RH5 5EJ

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Date:: 1999-08-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378149
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: The Capel Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:: The Capel Almshouses, 133 - 143, The Street, RH5 5EJ

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Capel Almshouses, 133 - 143, The Street, RH5 5EJ

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Capel
National Grid Reference:: TQ 17548 40482

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 September 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 14SE 8/101

CAPEL C.P. THE STREET (East Side) Nos 133 - 143 The Capel Almshouses

(Formerly listed as Nos 1 - 6 Webb Almshouses)

II

Almhouses. Erected in 1871 in memory of Charles Webb of Clapham Common by his children. Coursed sandstone block, now partly renewed, with plain tiled roofs. Yellow brick stacks with red brick patterning. Symmetrical plan. Two storey end blocks flanking lower, single storey central range. Square corbelled stacks in angle re-entrants with wings, ridge stacks to left and right of centre. Moulded eaves cornice to centre. One two-light, glazing-bar sash window with 18 panes to each light in stone mullioned surround on the first floor of each wing, with relieving arches over. One three-light window on ground floor below. Two two-light sashes with mullions either side of centre on central range. Doors, all with strapwork hinges and arched, chamfered heads, to ends in set back bays; two further doors either side of centre. Left hand return front- corbelled eaves and corbelled band across first floor. Three-light casement window below.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.131.

Listing NGR: TQ1754840482

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Legacy System number:: 290216
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 131

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.