Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses

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TQ 3877 26/G46

GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SElO (south side) Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses 19.10.51.

GV II Founded 1576 by Wm Lambarde. Rebuilt 1818. Rows of two storeys. Cottages grouped around three sides of rectangular lawn. Centre group with chapel on axis with stone Ionic portico of three bays - flanking columns are paired. Horizontal entablature with blocking course. Brick pediment above at wall face with moulded stone cornice, clock in tympanum and surmounted by bell cupole with wind vane. Three cottages each side of chapel, side rows seven cottages each. Yellow stock brick two windows. Low pitched slate roof with eaves. Recessed windows with glazing bars. Small hoods on shaped brackets to doorways. Gables of north end of side rows have coat-of-arms in stone roundel in tympanum of pediment and below a round-headed arched blank window in arched recess with stone band at springing and inscribed tablet above. Wrought-iron entrance gate. To the south are C19 early-mid cottages forming part of the group; also one pair of cottages at either end of south range.

Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses and front railings and gates form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3808877238