St Charles House

LOWER BULLINGHAM CP HOLME LACY ROAD (north side) SO 53 NW 2/62 St Charles House 11.7.80 - II Six almshouses, now unoccupied. 1887. By P P Pugin for Mrs de la Barre Bodenham of Rotherwas. Brick with sandstone dressings. Pantile roof with brick and stone ridge stacks. Rectangular plan aligned roughly east/west. Eclectic style. Two storeys with attic. South elevation has three windows, 2-light mullions, concealed behind first floor verandah supported on posts with angle struts. Ledged door to left of centre and another to extreme right of verandah. Three raking-top dormers each with two cinquefoil headed lights. Ground floor has two projections, one to left-hand side, the other to right of centre, both supporting the verandah. Each has three narrow chamfered lights with four-centred heads and carries a pair of stepped corbels. Two entries, one to centre, the other to right-hand side. Recessed and attached to left is a single-storey wing with a 3-light bay window and to its left a door. The roof is hipped. In a corresponding position to the right of the main block is a two-storey wing with steps rising to the right end of the verandah. Interior inaccessible at time of resurvey (July 1986). (BoE, p 191).

Listing NGR: SO5212138247