Listed Building: WILLOUGHBY ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL (5.6.1)

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Grade II*
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EH LBS Legacy ID 429396
Date assigned 14 May 1952
Date last amended

Description

Group of 8 almshouses. 1685. Built for George Willoughby. Brick with plain tile roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinths, moulded coped gables and parapets. 3 grouped ridge and single gable stacks. Doors have chamfered ashlar surrounds. Windows have chamfered mullions, cast iron leaded casements and flat drip moulds. South front has higher central bay with blocked central doorway flanked to left by a casement and to right by 2 doorways. Beyond, a casement. Beyond again, 2 doors and beyond them, 2 casements. Beyond again, single doors. Beyond, to right, a door and a casement. Above, central sundial and above it, triple casement. To its right, a smaller casement. Beyond to left 3, and to right, 4 shouldered coped gabled dormers each with a casement. East gable has, above, a diamond casement. Adjoining front courtyard wall has ribbed half-round coping. 2 gateways with square piers. Outer lower boundary wall has central gateway with square piers. All piers have ball finials. (NCC/js)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 48315 42303 (37m by 21m)
Map sheet SK44SE
District Broxtowe
Civil Parish Cossall, Broxtowe

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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