Lethbridge'S And Davey'S Almshouses

SX 9293 PARR STREET 871/12/10106 (Northwest side) 23-JUN-00 1-6 Lethbridge's and Davey's Almshouses

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Row of 6 almshouses. c.1870. Red brick with stone dressings, end wall rendered; slate roofs, gabled at ends; stacks with clustered shafts & octagonal pots; cast iron rainwater goods. Plan: Original plan of each unit one room wide, later service blocks added to rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. The whole range has a symmetrical 6-window front. 3 projecting gabled porches with coped gables and 4-centred stone arched outer doorways with square-headed hoodmoulds with facetted spandrels. Blank shields to gables. Rectangular windows glazed with diamond leaded panes to returns of porches. Each porch contains 2 plank front doors in 4 centred arches with strap hinges with Gothic decoration. Ground floor at Nos. 1,2,5 and 6 have bay windows with hipped slate roofs containing 2-light mullioned windows with trefoil-headed lights. Other ground floor windows are similar but flush with transoms and square-headed hoodmoulds. First floor windows under coped gables are 2-light stone mullioned with trefoil-headed lights in a square-headed architrave. INTERIOR: Not inspected but tenant at No.5 report that chimney pieces remain but are now blocked. An externally complete group in Tudor Gothic style.

Listing NGR: SX9284893122