Long Alley Almshouses is a Grade I listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A Medieval Almshouse. 9 related planning applications.

Long Alley Almshouses

WRENN ID
weathered-plaster-hawk
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1951
Type
Almshouse
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 752 WEST ST HELEN STREET (West Side)

SU 4996 1/205 19.1.51 Long Alley Almshouses

GV

  1. Erected by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross in 1446. Row of single storey buildings in stone with the Guildhall in the centre. Brick stacks. Long oak cloister walk in front is circa 1500 and to it were added three elaborate C17 porches with paintings in panels executed by Sampson Strong of Oxford in 1605. The Hall was panelled at the same time and the mullioned bay window of stone added to the garden side, as well as the good octagonal lantern on the hall roof which bears the date of its repair, 1707. (See Preston, "Christ's Hospital" (1930), pp 8-32 and VCH Berks IV).

Twitty's Almshouses, Long Alley Almshouses, Brick Alley Almshouses and Church of St Helen form a group

Listing NGR: SU4965796736

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