Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall

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SK 44 SE 4/3

COSSALL CHURCH LANE (north side) Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall

14.5.52

G.V. II*

Group of eight almshouses. 1685. Built for George Willoughby. Brick with plain tile roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinths, moulded coped gables and parapets. Three 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 two doorways. Beyond, a casement. Beyond again, two doors and beyond them, two 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 three, and to right, four shouldered coped gabled dormers each with a casement. East gable has, above, a diamond casement.

Adjoining front courtyard wall has ribbed half-round coping. two gateways with square piers. Outer lower boundary wall has central gateway with square piers. All piers have ball finials.

Listing NGR: SK4831942308