Description

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TQ 3876
37/288

GREENWICH,
SOUTH STREET SE10 (East Side),
John Penn and Widow Smith Almshouses

(Formerly listed as: SOUTH STREET SE10 (East Side), Penn Almshouses)

II

Small group of almshouses in shallow U-shape around grass court. 1884. Red
brick with freestone dressings. 1 storey and attic, irregular fenestration.
High pitched tiled roof with pierced ridge tiles. Attic windows are in large
flush gabled dormers, breaking eaves; with blank tracery in gable ends. Group
of conjoined hexagonal chimney shafts. 1 and 2-light attic windows, stone mullioned
and transomed. Ground floor windows 3-light with stone mullions and 4-centred
heads. Similar heads to doors, 2 in projecting central feature with traceried
parapet and central gable. Small window between. 2 other doors in projecting
porches. All projections have stepped diagonal buttresses.
Inscription in plaque under porch gable: "These almshouses were erected in memory of John Penn by his widow Ellen penn. AnoD MDCCCIXXXIV."

Listing NGR: TQ3809076968

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26350409

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)