4, Northcroft Lane is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Almshouse.

4, Northcroft Lane

WRENN ID
hallowed-solder-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Country
England
Type
Almshouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. NORTHCROFT LANE 5127 (north side)

No 4 (formerly listed as No 4 (Almshouses)) SU 4767 SW 6/177 29.9.50

II GV

  1. Circa 1821 almshouses erected and endowed by John Childs for 3 male members of the Church of England. Gothick style. Two storeys. Double fronted with 3 windows. Hipped tile roof. Red brick with dentil eaves cornice. Arched. 2-light casement window with Y tracery and hoodmounds. Wide central doorway with moulded hood. Blind window over doorway with dedicatory inscription 'This Almshouse was erected and endorsed AD 1821 by Mr John Childs sail-cloth manufacturer of this town for poor men of good moral character, natives and parishoners of Newbury'. (VCH Berkshire 4, 153).

Listing NGR: SU4705167209

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