1-5 Cookes Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Almshouse.
1-5 Cookes Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tall-keystone-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 June 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SO 7875 SE 13/63
BEWDLEY CP HIGH STREET (south side) Cooke's Almshouses Nos 1-5
(Formerly listed as Cooke's Almshouses Nos 1 - 8 (consec))
22.4.50
GV II
Eight almshouses. Founded 1693, restored 1860, with some mid-C20 alterations. Rendered sandstone and brick with tile roof, stacks in two clusters of four square shafts to rear. Two storeys, moulded cornice, string to ground floor, C19 brick plinth; four windows: Three-light casements; centrally placed stone tablet bearing long inscription concerning the founder, Thomas Cooke, has a segmental pediment and eared architrave with consoles. To rear a lean-to along whole wall which contains the entrance. (BoE, p 86; VCH 4, p 299 - 300, 316).
Listing NGR: SO7861875253
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