Butlers Almshouses

Butlers Almshouses, 19-21 Byfield Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389414
Date first listed:: 04-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: Butlers Almshouses
Statutory Address:: Butlers Almshouses, 19-21 Byfield Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389414
Date first listed:: 04-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: Butlers Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:: Butlers Almshouses, 19-21 Byfield Road

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Butlers Almshouses, 19-21 Byfield Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 16211 75633

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 February to amend the architect and dates in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

787/0/10115

Isleworth BYFIELD ROAD No 19-219 (Butler's Almshouses)

04-SEP-01

II

Butler's Almshouses, 19-21 Byfield Road, Isleworth, LB Hounslow

A pair of almshouse cottages. 1885-6 by Edward Herbert Bourchier (1856-1938), architect of 32 Great George Street, Westminster, for the Isleworth United Charities Trust. Red brick with Bath stone dressings; slate roof. Single storey. Central entrance porch with four-centred arch entrance with drip mould and label stops; foliate decoration to spandrels. Empty shield in square panel in gable above. Tall clustered octagonal brick chimneystacks. Five-light arched windows on either side with leaded diamond pane lights beneath moulded stone cornice; arched side doors with Gothic Revival iron door furniture. Dwarf front wall of brick with stone coping. Inside porch is an arched stone tablet with cusped head, inscribed THESE ALMS HOUSES WERE ERECTED AND ENDOWED BY ELIZABETH BUTLER AS A THANK OFFERING TO GOD OCTOBER 24th 1885. Four panel doors with quatrefoil door knockers and single light arched windows with leaded lights inside porch.

Interiors not inspected: the original plans show these to consist of three rooms, with living room to front, kitchen in centre and bed room to rear. An unusually compact and late example of almshouses, a building type with which Isleworth is well-endowed.

(Sources: original drainage plans held by local authority; The Middlesex Chronicle, 7th August 1959 and 27th November 1959)

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488073
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Middlesex Chronicle' in 2 November, (1959)
'Middlesex Chronicle' in 7 August, (1959)

Legal

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