1 And 2 Almshouse

SO 61 NE 6/170 27.4.78

MITCHELDEAN THE STENDERS (south side) Nos 1 and 2, Almshouse (formerly listed as The Wilderness Charity Almshouses, Stenders Road)

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Semi-detached houses; 1857 (datestone); squared, roughly coursed stone, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. L-plan, gable to road, one- and-a-half storeys. Entry porch set diagonally in angle: shouldered lintel to doorway, below pointed arch containing shield and leaf carving; hoodmould over: door boarded. On right return to porch a lancet window. Porch roof gabled, swept eaves, plain bargeboards. Left gable of house, 3-light stone window, trefoil heads to equal-height lights, below relieving arch, 2-light window above without relieving arch. On right return single lancet. Gable as for porch. Right-hand gable has plain, chamfered plinth, with corner buttresses below plinth extending side walls. Ground floor a recessed canted bay with ashlar voussoirs over, 2-light in centre. Gable and window above as left gable. Lateral chimneys. "HD" carved on shield, 'AD mdccclvii' on lintel to door.

Listing NGR: SO6610918472