Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens
HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 1-9, HOPTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385621
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 1-9, HOPTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385621
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 1-9, HOPTON STREET
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:
- HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 1-9, HOPTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31830 80362
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3180 HOPTON STREET 636-1/1/446 (East side) 02/03/50 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive) Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HOPTON STREET (East side) Hopton's Almshouses)
GV II*
Almshouses. 1746-9, partly rebuilt and modernised C20. Built by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder. MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, hipped at ends; some roofs renewed. PLAN: 2 linked blocks, forming the northern range of originally 28 almshouses, grouped around 3 sides of a garden. Western end of range, originally Nos 1-3, is a C-shaped block, rebuilt after war damage, now adapted as 6 dwellings; linked by a brick arch to a range, originally of 4 (now Nos 7-9); all buildings modernised and re-opened 1988. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays each; some doors now replaced with windows. Ground-floor openings with segmental, gauged red brick arches; sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals to both floors. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3183080362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471025
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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