Percy and Wagner Almshouses
PERCY AND WAGNER ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, LEWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381669
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Percy and Wagner Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- PERCY AND WAGNER ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, LEWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381669
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Percy and Wagner Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERCY AND WAGNER ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, LEWES 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:
- PERCY AND WAGNER ALMSHOUSES, 1-12, LEWES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31809 05243
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3105SE LEWES ROAD
577-1/28/385 (East side)
05/03/71 Nos.1-12 (consecutive) Percy and
Wagner Almshouses
GV II
12 almshouses. 1795 and 1859, restored c1975. Nos 4-9 were
built in 1795 by Dorothy and Philadelphia Percy, daughters of
the Duke of Northumberland, to provide for 6 poor widows of
the Church of England; Nos 1-3 at the north end, and probably
also Nos 10-12 at the south, were added in 1859 by the
Reverend Henry Wagner and his sister Mary in memory of the
Marquis of Bristol; restored 1975-6 when, presumably, the
considerable additions at the rear were made. Yellow brick set
in Flemish bond, roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 windows each, except for the central
house which share a central window. The front advances and
recedes in a rhythm of 4-2-3-5-3-2-4. Pointed-arched
entrances, now no longer used as such, those to the centre
paired under an ogee arch and brick hoodmould; pointed-arched
windows with sashes of original design in which the upper sash
has pointed-arched glazing bars. Inscription over central bay:
'THESE ALMSHOUSES were erected and endowed at the request of
the late PHILADELPHIA and DOROTHY PERCY AD 1795'; plaque
between ground and first floor on No.3 '1859/In pious
remembrance of/The Marquis of Bristol/ M.A.W. and H.M.W.';
cornice and simple cemented embattled parapet; stacks to party
walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3180905243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482032
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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