Description

TL 04NW KEMPTON URBAN BEDFORD ROAD

2/91 St John's Homes
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- II

Almshouses. Founded 1881 by Mrs Anne Jane Charles Williamson, for members of
the Church of England. Red brick structure, ground floor clad in colour
washed plaster with red brick dressings, first floor hung with decorative
tiles, some mock timber framing to projecting gables. Clay tile roofs. 2-
storeyed 5-bay main block, with single storeyed single-bay blocks to W and E,
the latter with hipped roofs. Neo-vernacular style. To centre of main block
is unusual bay window, canted to LH side only, overhung by large jettied
gabled projection, itself with jettied attic. First floor has projecting 4-
light window on brackets. Attic has crucifix to centre, and below it the
letter "A.M.D.C." incised in bressumer. First floor bressumer incised with
"In memoriam". Below first floor window are 4 plasterwork panels, 2 central
ones with coats of arms, outer ones with "A.D." and '1881". To each end of
main block is canted bay surmounted by smaller gabled and jettied first floor
with 3-light projecting window. 2 recessed bays each have 3-light casement
under cambered head to ground floor, and 2 small windows and one gabled
projecting 2-light window to first floor. One 3-light window to each side
wing. Frost windows are casements, upper part only with glazing bars. Coors,
all of 6 panels with top pair glazed, are arranged 1-2-1-1-2-1 overall, and
have tiled porch canopies. Variety of tall multiple stacks. Bargeboards to
gables. Anne Williamson, herself a widow, inhabited the central first floor
flat.

Listing NGR: TL0288347562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407978

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)