Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2428 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Almshouses, consecutive Nos 1 to 5 |
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Summary
These five almshouses were originally built in 1603, and rebuilt in 1870. They are constructed from the local carstone, with gault brick dressings and a slate roof. The buildings have one storey with three gabled porches, each double arched evenly distributed.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6290 0592 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60NW |
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| Parish: | STOW BARDOLPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Almshouses. Five houses dated 1603 by Ordnance Surve but rebuilt around 1870. Carrstone with gault brick dressings and slate roof. Single storey, three gabled porches each double arched. Two light Gothick windows. Diamond flues on stacks.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 21 May 1984.
Photocopy Ordnance Survey description (S2) in file.
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 5 February 1990.
However (S3) notes that the landscape gardener Kennedy proposed rebuilding and perhaps resiting the almshouses in 1819. Was this done? Was this another rebuilding before 1870, or is the latter date incorrect?
E. Rose (NLA), 19 September 2000.
Monument Types
- ALMSHOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1603 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 674. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Stow Bardolph. |
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1152633. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 60 NW 11 [6]. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Williamson, T.. 1998. Archaeology of the Landscape Park: Garden Design in Norfolk, England, c. 1680-1840.. BAR (British Series). Vol 268. pp 202. |
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