Bakers Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Bakers Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lead-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 38 NE 2/22 27.9.71
LEA BRIDGE ROAD Leyton, E10 (north side) Bakers Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses. 1857-66. By T E Knightley. Yellow brick, stone dressings, pitched slate roof to eaves. Composed around 3 sides of open quadrangle. Eclectic Italianate manner. Mainly 2 storeyed. Almshouses each 1 bay with gabled porch shared with neighbour; decorative moulded entrances, panelled doors. Ground floor windows, round-headed with rusticated gauged brick voussoirs. First floor windows mainly square-headed, with stone architraves. Bracketed eaves. Tall panelled chimneys, Italianate belvedere towers in each angle with low hipped roofs. Each wing with central emphasis. Central block with centre 4 bays on larger scale with inset clock, 2 corniced doorways, and gabled pavilions to either side with rusticated quoins. Side wings with gabled centre and end pavilions more elaborate than intervening units, those to centre with projecting balconied bay windows to first floor. Side wings have symmetrical returns to road frontage, with paired gabled pavilions and rusticated quoins. Rear elevation also of architectural interest.
Listing NGR: TQ3763588096
Detailed Attributes
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