Forecourt Wall And Gateway Of Wright'S Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. A Post-Medieval Almshouses.

Forecourt Wall And Gateway Of Wright'S Almshouses

WRENN ID
white-nave-tarn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1974
Type
Almshouses
Period
Post-Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 1425 LONDON ROAD ----------- Forecourt wall and gateway of Mr Wright's Almshouses SJ 6552 1/63A

II*

  1. Erected by the Trustees in 1667. A low wall of red brick extending over frontage at rear of pavement with moulded stone coping. At centre a fine gateway being a stone screen with segmental arch, columns on pedestals, entablature, moulded Jacobean coping and large side scrolls (one restored). In urgent need of repair when inspected but included in a proposal for the dismantling of the almshouses and their re-erection by Crewe's Almshouses in Beam Street (Map No 1/66).

Listing NGR: SJ6544652562

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