HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS

HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 12-21, HOPTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385623
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS
Statutory Address:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 12-21, HOPTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385623
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, 12-21, HOPTON STREET

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:: HOPTONS ALMSHOUSES, HOPTON GARDENS, 12-21, 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 31832 80330

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3180 HOPTON STREET 636-1/1/448 (East side) 02/03/50 Nos.12-21 (Consecutive) Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HOPTON STREET (East side) Hopton's Almshouses)

GV II*

Almshouses. 1746-9, 1825, partly rebuilt C20. Built by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder; 2 extra houses added 1825, rebuilt after war damage; all buildings modernised and re-opened 1988. MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, hipped at ends; some roofs renewed. PLAN: 2 linked blocks, forming the southern range of originally 28 almshouses, grouped around 3 sides of a garden. Western end of this range is a C-shaped block (with the later 2 houses projecting at the south west corner), now adapted as 7 dwellings, linked by a brick arch to a range, orginally of 4 (now Nos 12-14). 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: TQ3183280330

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Legacy System number:: 471027
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.