Listed Building record TQ 65 NW 232 - THE ALMSHOUSES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1806 to 1806

Location

Grid reference TQ 6110 5902 (point)
Map sheet TQ65NW
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ6059-6159 WROTHAM C.P. ST MARY'S LANE 7/25 (west side)
The Almshouses, Nos 1-4, (Incl) GV II
Almshouse row. Dated 1806 by John Carter. Coursed galletted rubble stone with ashlar dressings on ashlar plinth. Moulded cornice to slate hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks. Central pair of houses project slightly with dressed quoins. 1 storey; 4 pairs of lancet casements, divided by 3 lean-to projections, doubled in centre, with 4 boarded doors facing each other in their sides. These entrance projections seem to have been thrown forward at a later date, re-using drip-moulds from window that they covered. Crest on central projection with inscription: BENEVOLENTIA HELENAE BETENSO MDCCCVI
See The Gentleman's Magazine, 1817. (ii), 365; M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600 to 1840, 1978, 200.
Listing NGR: TQ6110159027


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM