5 and 6, Stow Road
5 and 6, Stow Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1378383
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1998
- Statutory Address:
- 5 and 6, Stow Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1378383
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1998
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5 and 6, Stow Road
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5 and 6, Stow Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ixworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 93411 70195
Details
TL 9370
19/3/10006
IXWORTH
STOW ROAD
Nos.5 and 6
GV
II
Pair of council houses. Designed 1892, built 1893-1894 by Mr Whitmore, the Suffolk County Surveyor, for Thingoe Rural District Council. Red brick, slate roofs with ridge crest. Central shared stack.
Two-storied semi-detached pairs with rear single storey back kitchen/wash house and lavatory. Timber casement windows under arched brick heads to No.6, which has timber door under toplight; the windows and front door to No.5 have been renewed. Single sill band to first floor. Interiors not inspected.
One of four pairs of houses understood to be the first rural council housing built in England, under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, and surviving in little-altered condition. The 1890 Act was the first to permit local authorities to acquire and develop land for housing but was adopted by just eight rural authorities, despite increasing recognition that agricultural labourers endured housing conditions every bit as bad as those of the inner cities.
Listing NGR: TL9341170195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Burnett, J, A Social History of Housing, (1986), 138
Other
Mr Holmes (Not Dated) Perrott's Folly, the Story of the First Rural Council Houses in England
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