Eagles Close Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Almshouses.
Eagles Close Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- secret-step-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Almshouses
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WANTAGE POST OFFICE LANE SU4087, SU3987NE (East side) 8/153, 9/153 Nos.l to 10 (consecutive), Eagles Close Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses. Built 1867 for Town Commissioners. Flemish bond red brick with limestone ashlar bands; old tile roof with decorative ridge tiles; brick stacks. Row of "one-up, one-down" cottages with rear outshut. 2 storeys; 10-window range. Pointed arches of alternating brick and stone ashlar voussoirs over plank doors with decorative strap hinges. Similar tympanum arches over 3-light ground-floor casements, some with H-L hinges: similar first-floor 2-light casements. 4 offset buttresses divide each paired door. Ashlar bands beneath first- and ground-floor window sills. Gabled roof with stone coping to parapets; ridge stacks. Interior not inspected. Built in similar style to Nos.23 - 37 Mill Street (q.v.) also of 1867.
Listing NGR: SU3998587812
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