Nos 1-4 Turners Close And Attached Screen Walls

TRENT ST 5818-5918 - 18/174 1, 2, 3, 4 Turner's Close and attached screen walls, 11.7.51 (formerly listed as Almshouses) GV II Two ranges of almshouses. Dated 1846. Coursed rubble-stone walls. Scale-tiled roofs with stone gable-copings and cavetto-moulded kneelers. Two tall octagonal stone stacks to each ridge, octagonal capstones. The two ranges face each other across a small courtyard. One storey. 2 windows, each of two 4-centred lights in a square head with a label over, iron casements with lozenge-leading. The doors are situated laterally towards the end of each range, straight-chamfered jambs and depressed arch in a square head. Returned label over. Plank doors, studded and with strap-hinges, C19. There is a short rear wing to each dwelling, C19. The east and west sides of the courtyard are closed by screen walls, each with a central gateway with 4-centred head and moulded coping above. In the north-west gable is an inscription panel only partly legible, "(Bui)l(t) (an)d Endowed in the Year of Our Lord 1846". Built under the patronage and endowment of the Rev. and Mrs Turner of Trent. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 256(4)).

Listing NGR: ST5908618625