Chandos Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1960. Almshouse. 6 related planning applications.
Chandos Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- western-railing-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1960
- Type
- Almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE MILL LANE (south side) 4/12 Chandos Almshouses 4.7.60 (Nos 1-12 (Consec))
GV II
Almshouses. Dated 1573, but now mainly facade, remainder C20 rebuilding. Squared and coursed limestone, stone slate roof. Two storeys, 6-windowed, all 2-light chamfered mullion casements with one horizontal bar, no drips or cills, 3 former doorways, now-2-light casements under 4-centred chamfered heads; entrance, right, through C20 extension. Over left doorway cartouche and Chandos arms with supporters; over central doorway recessed lias panel inscribed: FOUNDED BY/LADY DOROTHY CHANDOS/OF/SUDELEY CASTLE ABOUT THE YEAR/ . .... (this was 1573)/AND .....LT BY/VOLUN .....TION/ A modest but comely facade grouping with adjacent properties in Queens Square (qv). (See photo- graphs in NMR and Donaldson, D N, A Portrait of Winchcombe, 1978).
Listing NGR: SP0231728175
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