Henry Bridge'S Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1953. A C20 Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Henry Bridge'S Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- hidden-buttress-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1953
- Type
- Almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 16NE 3/389
BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE THAMES DITTON STATION ROAD Nos. 58 to 68 (even) (Henry Bridge's Almshouses)
14.8.53.
II* Almshouse row. 1720, restored in C20. Brown brick with red brick dressings, plain tiled roof with rendered coping to gables. Three rear stacks, one to centre and one to each end. Two storeys with plat band over ground floor. Twelve bays, centre four in projecting pedimented break with wooden moulding to pediment. Six casement windows across the first floor, windows in first, fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth and twelfth bays blocked. Ground floor windows under cambered heads. Six ribbed and boarded doors under identical trellis porches with pentice roofs across the ground floor. Square wood sundial in pediment tympaneum dated 1720.
Two stone plaques in centre of first floor, upper one inscribed: " EX DONO/ HENRICA BRIDGES GEN/ DOWN MANOR Y DE IMWORTH/ ATS IMBER COURT/ ANNO DOM 1720" The lower one recording the renovation of 1925. Further metal plaque below commemorating restoration of 1977.
Listing NGR: TQ1568866945
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