Owlfields Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Almshouses.

Owlfields Almshouses

WRENN ID
solemn-tower-martin
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Derbyshire Dales
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1951
Type
Almshouses
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHURCH STREET 1. 783 (South-East Side) Owlfield's Almshouses SK 14 NE 1/20 15.6.51. II* GV 2. Founded 1640 and erected shortly afterwards. Has much the same characteristics as Pegg's Almshouses (qv). Single storey and attics, the attic storey with 3 gabled dormers added 1848. 5 windows, 3 centre ones have coupled lights with mullions. 4-centred arches 2 of which are surmounted by panels bearing Latin inscriptions. Clustered stone stacks. Tiled roof with alternating double courses of curved and plain tiles. Coped gabled ends. Restored 1848.

Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.

Listing NGR: SK1776446530

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