Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Almshouses.
Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-fireplace-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Almshouses
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of four almshouses that have been converted into two private houses. They were constructed in 1860 by John Frances Buller of Morval House. The structure is made of stone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends and sprocketted eaves. There are two large stone rubble lateral chimney stacks with set-offs. The original layout included a row of four one-room plan cottages, with the left two being a mirror image of the right two. The central two cottages have entrances in the middle of the row, while the end two cottages have entrances in lean-to porches at either end. The two cottages on the right share a right-hand front lateral chimney stack, and those on the left share a similar left-hand stack. At the rear, there is a single-storey 19th-century outshut.
The almshouses have now been divided to create a pair of semi-detached cottages. The front is symmetrical with two storeys and four windows, featuring complete 19th-century fenestration with diamond-leaded glazing bars. The ground floor has two pairs of 19th-century three-light casements flanking the two projecting front lateral chimney stacks, with a central pair of entrances in chamfered four-centred freestone arches that are now partly blocked. The outer pair of entrances are located in lean-to stone rubble porches on the gable ends, also with four-centred freestone arches.
On the first floor, there are two pairs of 19th-century three-light casements in gabled half-dormers directly above the ground floor window openings. A memorial plaque on the left-hand chimney stack references earlier almshouses at Higher Trenode, stating that "This house and two closes of land were purchased June y 14th 1746. By Jon Francis Buller Esq out of the profit of the Estates in Kent devised By Sir John Hayward Knight to Charitable Uses and given to the poor housekeepers of this Parish for Ever." A second plaque on the right-hand chimney stack notes that "These Almshouses were rebuilt on this site in the year 1860 by John Francis Buller Esqr. Great Great Grandson of the founder."
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Nearby listed buildings
- Memorial Hall and Old School House
- Morval War Memorial
- Hillcrest
- The Old Farmhouse and the Cottage
- The Old Vicarage
- Churchtown Cottage
- Headstone of Charles Sowden of Church of St Wenna
- Church of St Wenna
- Farmbuildings Immediately to South West of Morval Farmhouse
- Headstone of Thomas Harding 0.1m to South of Chancel of Church of St Wenna