Description

TQ 16NE
3/389

BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE
THAMES DITTON
STATION ROAD
Nos. 58 to 68 (even) (Henry Bridge's Almshouses)

14.8.53.

II*
Almshouse row. 1720, restored in C20. Brown brick with red brick dressings, plain tiled roof with rendered coping to gables. Three rear stacks, one to centre and one to each end. Two storeys with plat band over ground floor. Twelve bays, centre four in projecting pedimented break with wooden moulding to pediment. Six casement windows across the first floor, windows in first, fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth and twelfth bays blocked. Ground floor windows under cambered heads. Six ribbed and boarded doors under identical trellis porches with pentice roofs across the ground floor. Square wood sundial in pediment tympaneum dated 1720.

Two stone plaques in centre of first floor, upper one inscribed: " EX DONO/ HENRICA BRIDGES GEN/ DOWN MANOR Y DE IMWORTH/ ATS IMBER COURT/ ANNO DOM 1720" The lower one recording the renovation of 1925. Further metal plaque below commemorating restoration of 1977.

Listing NGR: TQ1568866945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547158

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability