Listed Building record TQ 65 NW 232 - THE ALMSHOUSES
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6110 5902 (point) |
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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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM