Mary Warner Almshouses And Walled Garden

BOYTON (Off) THE STREET TM 34 NE (North Side) 7/34 Mary Warner 16/3/66 Almshouses and walled garden (formerly listed as Warner's Almshouses) G.V. II Group of Almshouses. Central range of 1743. Left-hand wing of 1828 and right hand wing of 1860. Red Flemish bond brick with plain tile roofs. three ranges forming an open rectangular courtyard with a low wall to the fourth side. South-facing range of 1743: 6 house fronts, each of one bay. Doorways at far left and right and 2 pairs of doors to right and left of centre. Flat-arched heads to all the openings. Doors of c.1860 each having 4 panels, the upper 2 glazed. Six windows to ground and first floors, each having cross windows of C19 date with glazing bars. To left of centre at first floor level is a sundial with rectangular ashlar plate and copper gnomon. To the centre at first floor level is an ashlar datestone with moulded entablature and sill supported on console brackets. This reads, to the cornice: WARNERS ALMSHOUSE and to the tablet: TRUSTEES THE RIGHT HONBLE LORD VISCOUNT HEREFORD SIR JOHN BARKER BART. DUDLY NORTH ) EDMUND TYRELL ) Efqre JOHN REVETT ) THE REVD MR BENCE THE REVD MR WELTON and to the apron: ERECTED 1743 cavetto-moulded plaster frieze above this and 4 chimney stacks evenly spaced along the ridge each having 4 flues. The range of 1828 is similar but has eight houses divided into pairs by pilaster buttresses which die back by an offset immediately below the cornice. At first floor level, above the central buttress which dies back at a lower level than those to either side of it, is a datestone, similar in form to that on the front of 1743 but reading: To the cornice: WARNERS ALMSHOUSE

and to the tablet: TRUSTEES 1828 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF STRADBROKE SIR THOMAS SHERLOCKE GOOCH BART SIR CHARLES BLOIS BART DUDLY LONGNORTH ESQUIRE CHARLES TYRELL ESQUIRE THE REVD WILLIAM LONG ESQUIRE EDWARD S GOOCH ESQUIRE

Apart from these details the front is similar to that of 1743. The range of 1860 is an exact copy of that of 1828. Similar datestone but here reading: To the cornice: WARNERS ALMSHOUSE

and to the tablet: TRUSTEES THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF STRADBROKE CHARLES TYRELL ESQUIRE HENRY BENCE ESQUIRE WILLIAM JOHN ROUS ESQUIRE WILLIAM LONG ESQUIRE THE REVD EDMUND HOLLAND JOHN WILLIAM BROOKE ESQUIRE

and to the apron: 1860

Each of the lateral wings terminates in a blank gabled wall with kneelers. The brickwork to the gables is layed in a pattern of diagonally ascending headers and stretchers creating a chevron pattern. Outshuts to the rear of the ranges, those to the 1743 and 1828 ranges, having two gabled projections each which rise to first floor level and have loft doors. Flush with the gable ends of the lateral wings and continuing around the rear of the 3 ranges is a walled garden enclosure of c.1869 with walls of c.5 feet in height.

Listing NGR: TM3720947071