HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS

HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS, 10 AND 11, HOPTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385622
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS
Statutory Address:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS, 10 AND 11, HOPTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385622
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS, 10 AND 11, HOPTON STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES HOPTON GARDENS, 10 AND 11, HOPTON STREET

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31854 80349

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TQ3180 HOPTON STREET 636-1/1/447 (East side) 02/03/50 Nos.10 AND 11 Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HOPTON STREET (East side) Hopton's Almshouses)

GV II*

Almshouses and committee room. 1746-9. Built by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder; house on right rebuilt after war damage; all buildings modernised and re-opened 1988. MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; hipped tiled roof (renewed) with overhanging eaves. PLAN: forms the central block of a group of (originally) 28 almshouses, ranged around 3 sides of a garden (this block on the eastern side). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, each almshouse 2 bays, the central committee room of 3 bays pedimented and slightly projecting. Central entrance has 6-panelled door with timber surround, consoled cornice and foundation tablet above: "Chas. Hopton Esq sole founder of this charity Anno 1752". Entrance flanked by tall sash windows with glazing bars, round-arched with keystoned architraves and bracketed sills. Almshouses have gauged red brick segmental arches to ground-floor openings, sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals to both floors. INTERIOR: committee room panelled with shouldered fireplace and heavy overmantel and recessed panels.

Listing NGR: TQ3185480349

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Legacy System number:: 471026
Legacy System:: LBS

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