Noell'S Almshouses And Attached Boundary Wall

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW MILL STREET 590-1/10/72 (South side) 16/01/51 Noell's Almshouses and attached boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET (South side) The College (including chapel))

II*

Almshouses comprising 23 apartments, and chapel. c1660; restored 1866; extended from 12 to 23 apartments, 1960. For Sir Martin Noell. Ashlar; tile roof with ashlar stacks; rendered rear wings. Jacobean style. PLAN: U-plan with central chapel. EXTERIOR: single storey with attic; symmetrical 6-window central range with chapel breaking forward under shaped gable with short flanking embattled parapets. Plain plinth and dripcourse over ground floor, raised to chapel. Chapel has pointed entrance with continuous mouldings in square-headed architrave, flanking pilasters; segmental pedimental feature over drip has raised panel supporting architraved panel with Noell arms with flanking Doric columns on enriched plinths, entablature with ogival finials flanking central ogee-arched panel; flanking windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights. 2-light double-hollow-chamfered- mullioned windows with leaded glazing to sides, flanking paired Tudor-headed entrances with large lintels and plank doors; 2-light dormer windows in coped gables; entrances in gabled porches across re-entrant angles. Returns of wings each have 3 windows and dormers and one pair of entrances. 6 cruciform stacks. Gable ends of wings have coped gables and Stafford knots, one inverted Rear has coped gable ends and two C20 gabled wings flanking gable of chapel which has 3-light ovolo-mullioned window with intersecting tracery. Similar returns, that to right has attached boundary wall which continues round 2 sides of rear garden. INTERIOR of chapel has 2 simple roof trusses to ends of barrel vault with collar purlin; C19 benches; window has ex-situ C19 stained glass said to be taken from St Mary Castlechurch (qv). (Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford: London: 1979-: 266-7).

Listing NGR: SJ9206623063