Caleb Lovejoy Almshouses

SU 9949NW GUILDFORD BURY STREET (East Side)

7/10 Nos 5, 7, 9 & 11 13/1/72 (Caleb Lovejoy Almshouses) GV II Almshouses. Dated 1839 and paid for by Caleb Lovejoy bequest. Sandstone blocks with grey/brown brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. Symmetrical plan and elevation around a central two storey pavilion flanked by single storey wings with gable end bays. Decorative paired cross-ridge stacks,placed diagonally, on the wings; paired round, cut-brick and corbelled stacks to sides of centre gables. Double gable end pavilion to centre with pierced, wavy-edged bargeboards under spike and pendant finials. Leaded casement fenestration with label mouldings over & arched two-light intersecting tracery. One window on each floor of each gable to centre, one window in each linking range to end gables. Gabled porch to centre with C20 glazed and panelled doors in chamfered brick, surround, and with 4-centre arch over. Further doors in gabled porches on left and right hand return fronts.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.291.

Listing NGR: SU9942049290