Smith'S Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.

Smith'S Almshouses

WRENN ID
worn-courtyard-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1951
Type
Almshouses
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 1260 ELM STREET (South Side)

Smith's Almshouses TM 1644 NW 1/43 19.12.51

II GV

  1. A mid C18 red brick building. 2 storeys and cellars. 7 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames. The windows are widely spaced in the facade. A central 6 panel door has a wood doorcase with moulded architrave, panelled reveals and a flat hood on brackets above a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. Above the doorway there is a panel inscribed with the words:- "Erected in the year 1760 for the benefit of 12 poor women of honest life and conversation of the age of 50 or upwards being Communicants of the Church of England as by lae Established." Roof tiled, with 2 square red brick chimney stacks.

Church of St Mary at the Elms, No 1 Churchyard (St Mary's Cottage) No 25, Smith's Almshouses & Nos 29 to 33 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TM1607144507

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